Tim Chase wrote: Tim, thanks for taking time to respond in so much depth. You've given me enough encouragement to think we can move forward.
I'm *really* tired of thick-client GUI development. >> - Data entry people use lots of F-keys, Ctrl-keys and Alt-keys to make >> things happen on the screen. > > Not quite as much flexibility here. HTML defines accelerator > keys which are browser-specific (sometimes Alt+letter, sometimes > control+letter, or other combos). This is perhaps the only disappointing news from your experiences. > As a vi/vim user, my fingers occasionally > try to use control+W to delete the previous word while I'm typing > in IE, only to have it close my whole window. Minutes of sotto > voce oaths usually follow. Ug. This would be disastrous to a clerk on a tight queue. In the very least it looks like I may have to make Firefox a requirement as there appear to be fewer push-here-to-explode opportunities. >> - Printouts need precise on-paper placement and instant delivery (no >> pop-ups to select printer or preview). > > printing from the web is a peculiar issue. If you're printing to > a local printer (attached/accessible to the browsing machine), > you pretty much always have to go through a print dialog. If the > printer is attached to the web-server, you have more control over > the immediacy of printing. You'd have to use a python printing > module (there was a recent post on comp.lang.python on this that > pointed at a popular library, though I don't have it on hand). Would that be ReportLab perchance? Print solutions in Python seems to be a scarce species. I've used ReportLab with mixed success. If you know of another one to look at I'd sure be eager. > Django+Python+JavaScript can handle most of the requirements. > Demand-printing on the web-client is the largest hurdle. And as > a web-user, I'd want it that way, as I wouldn't want arbitrary > websites to be able to send stuff to my printer unsolicited > without giving me an option to cancel. > > Hope my time in the trenches on the above gives you some pointers. Yes. Yes it does. Thanks. Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
