Re: The RAPP database

Lynn & Patrick Hilferty (philferty@earthlink.net)
Fri, 05 Dec 1997 08:59:15 -0800

At 8:47 -0700 12/5/97, Richard Sullivan wrote:

>All kidding aside, I've been playing with going from a database to HTML >and
>the conversion programs suck. Not so much do to the programs themselves,
>but the fact that HTML is basically a crude mark-up language. and lacks the
>power to do the kind of layouts you can do with program code in a database
>report package.

There's a scripting program called "Frontier", touted as a web development
system, that generates HTML according to templates that you would set up.
the Windows version is currently in alpha and the Mac version is up to
4.2.3. The advantages are that it is a scripting language and it is
(currently) free. On the other hand, I still don't know how to use it to
any significant degree. Nevertheless, take a look at http://scripting.com .

Patrick Hilferty

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