RE: recommendations for web/database applications

Dan wrote:
> Firstly, I hate web applications with a passion.  They're cheap,
> clunky approximations of desktop applications,

Agreed.  Nothing beats a good set of native binary widgets for expressiveness 
and responsiveness.


> and are simply not necessary.

Unfortunately in this case, a web UI is necessary -- the application will be 
used by third-party volunteers using whatever computer they can get their hands 
on (typically old and slow).  I can't expect them to install anything, either 
because it's not their computer, they don't know how, or both.


> Gtk2::Ex::DBI, Gtk2::Ex::Datasheet::DBI, PDF::ReportWriter

Nice.  Which Windows Perl distribution(s) do they work with?  Do they work with 
text-to-speech or other technologies for visually impaired people?


> http://entropy.homelinux.org/axis

I like your blog entry for yesterday. }:->  Check out what Theo de Raadt 
(OpenBSD) had to say about X (starting around 7:00):

    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM&feature=PlayList&p=11673778ED01EF9D&index=5


Thanks!

David



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