More sale items - better format

Gernot Hassenpflug wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@NOTE049.local.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickl e-me:

I am begining to understand that. Shame on me. I used to write code that was as generic as possible so as to work in the greatest number of enviroments. Back to junior for me.

I did the main and other pages in Word. What a fraking mistake! I redid them as just bare HTML. There are basic tables in some laid out as you describe just and .

The lists were Excel, I was trying to make my job easier. Actually what I want is to allow the user to make a few selection - tyoe, scale - etc and then generate and display a custom sheet with a minimum of formatting. i did it once before several years ago but can't find the code I did it with. I was reading through my HTML books but that looks like a dead end neither VBScript or JavaScript have the data handling I need. Got any ideas?

I think i can invoke an exe through a link but how do i get the output HTML to display and will "back" still work? Have to test I guess.

Yep. That's how I did the links tables.

Thanks!

Frank

Hi Frank,

I am part of an engineering team of 6 people in our company designing, implementing and maintaining a web application for a mobile advertising server. I myself am neither the dedicated UI designer, nor the dedicated front-end (read: Javascript) guy, so I have to qualify when I say I have some ideas. I am not an expert.

You're quite right though in that this requires "dynamic HTML", either server-based (e.g., CGI) or client-based (e.g., Javascript), or a combination of the two (e.g., Javascript used to make a requiest to the server, and then format the page accordingly to display the new information received from the server).

Server-based has the advantage that the user does not need to have scripting enabled, the server simply presents a whole new page to the browser. But it is far less flexible, can take longer (though I personally think the current implementations of Javascript interpreters and XUL combined with haphazard coding and so on make the difference moot).

I guess that depends on how your data is stored, and how you access it. If you have a database like MySQL holding the data, then the access depends on your web framework and a mapper (if any) between the web framework and the database (to translate the tables into program arrays). I suppose the simplest would be to have plain text tables to hold the data (or CVS) and process it with command-line tools (like awk) and build a simple table (again, using awk) which then gets inserted verbatim into the HTML page at a particular location (whereever the exe is positioned).

That's not very specific, I know...

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