Re: The RAPP database

Philip Trauring (philip@cs.brandeis.edu)
Fri, 05 Dec 1997 12:20:24 -0500 (EST)

I've actually used Frontier on the Mac. I forgot it was available on
Windows now. Frontier is really quite amazing so I would certainly
recommend taking a look at this as well. You can check it out at:

http://www.scripting.com

- Philip

> 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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