[KLUG Members] database programming question

[Adam Tauno WIlliams]

> BTW, I share your laments over Javascript.  It was fabulous to use, but
> that was several years ago before MS made it incompatible among
> browsers.  They're determined to force active-x down people's throats,
> but security issues are their comeuppance.   I design almost exclusively
> without client-side scripting now (I'm even slow to script
> auto-submission of forms!).  But, I still wish we could do -some-
> client-side (how 'bout spell check?)

Have you looked at X-forms?  I just read a bit about them a couple of
weeks ago, it is a standard*.  It was/is designed to address the issue
of the rather lousy form description permitted in HTML.  But not being a
web-devel person primarily I only looked at is as far as to think "Looks
cool, I really hope they come up with something."  Don't know where is
stands as far as browser adoption.

*(I don't know exactly what they mean by that: overseen, RFC, etc...
Just calling something "standard" don't make it so).