On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:08, Duncan Hill wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 16:03, Winn Johnston might have typed: > > > My users have expressed a distinct dislike for point > > and click methods. They would rather use the keyboard > > in the same way a ticket agent does when she is > > looking for a flight :) > > You can do this one of two ways. > > Give them shell logins on a *nix box (or port to win32) and write your > application in perl or php as a console app. > > Give them lynx and write your app in php as a web app, using style sheets > etc. > They get a green screen (literally with the right lynx config) where tab etc > all behave (complete with 1 - 9 working as hotkeys for menus), but you can > migrate new users to the Firefox/IE interface :)
This is an excellent idea. It makes for easy development while giveing them the old DOS-terminal throwback feel, but may I suggest 'elinks' instead of 'lynx'? I have been a lynx user for years (I do a lot of work where I only have ssh/console access to my clients systems) but the newer elinks which I recently discovered is very nice with a cleaner, less cluttered screen. -- - michael dykman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
