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Re: Forms support in clients
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Arnett)
Sun Sep 25 22:57:58 1994
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 03:56:37 +0100
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From: narnett@verity.com (Nick Arnett)
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At 7:38 AM 9/25/94 +0100, Christian L. Mogensen wrote:
>No - he wants documents that can be more like programs. basically he
>wants to display the form, have the user fill in what doc he
>would like (as an example) and then have the browser do a text
>substitution on the ACTION part before performing the GET.
There's been some talk around here, as I vaguely recall, about TCL for this
sort of thing. Any thoughts, anyone, on the idea of letting TCL swallow up
HTML, so that we have a real UI language that contains a real hypertext
language, instead of trying to built a UI language out of a hypertext
language? (Which just ain't gonna happen, I suspect...)
Nick
