<div dir="ltr">You're right that any web-based application is plagued by various latency problems. But, for whatever reason, Tom did say he wants a browser-based solution. <br><br>One way to partly resolve this would be to run the app off of a beefed-up local server on your own local subnet. That would address some of the speed and reliability issues that most web apps have -- all traffic would be local rather than through the internet.<br>
<br>Google Gears is another attempt to address the inherent problems in web apps, but I don't know if there are any good application development frameworks out for it yet. <br><br>Maybe Tom could elaborate on why he wants his data-entry to be browser based.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Alan Palazzolo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@alanpalazzolo.com">me@alanpalazzolo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Curtis and Tom,<br>
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Curits, you know how I love the Drupal, but I don't think Drupal is a<br>
good solution for this problem.<br>
<br>
One, using a browser-based solution could be an overall problem because<br>
theres always a chance of unreliability, slowness, internet<br>
connectivity. Also, Drupal has a lot of overhead. And Drupal does not<br>
have good, stable support for Google Gears. So, unless you need actual<br>
website with content (besides data entry), Drupal is probably not the<br>
answer. Don't get me wrong, Drupal is great and can accomplish this,<br>
but I don't see it as the best solution.<br>
<br>
But, I'm not entirely sure of the scope of project. Do you need<br>
anything besides data entry? Security issues? Design aspects? LAN or<br>
WAN support (this could remove the browser/internet problems)? Needless<br>
to say, I don't have any real solutions that I can think of.<br>
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On 9/11/08 11:13 AM, Curtis Griesel wrote:<br>
> If you want your application to be<br>
> - browser-based<br>
> - standards-compliant -- works on most computer browsers / platforms<br>
> - easy to configure<br>
> - secure -- easy to patch and upgrade on an ongoing basis<br>
> - modular -- start with core features and easily integrate new features in<br>
> the future<br>
><br>
> I would look at building it in Drupal.<br>
><br>
> True, there is a learning curve involved to actually do the development, but<br>
> it is PHP so not at all hard for an existing software developer to grasp.<br>
> Plus, there is a large and active Drupal community so you can easily get<br>
> free help, or even hire a local Drupal developer to do the work for you if<br>
> you don't want to be bothered.<br>
><br>
> Curtis<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Tom Penney <<a href="mailto:tpenney@gmail.com">tpenney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Forgive the off topic post. I was hoping that someone might have some<br>
>> advice for me.<br>
>><br>
>> I've been handed a home brew data entry system written in VB6 that is<br>
>> in need of replacement. Code is poorly commented and the guy who wrote<br>
>> it can't be found. What I would LIKE to do is start from scratch and<br>
>> write a nice browser based system using google gears or something like<br>
>> that but I don't have time. I would think there would be a ton of<br>
>> stuff available, open or otherwise, as we are not doing anything<br>
>> unusual. But what I've found seems antiquated and expensive. I was<br>
>> asked to evaluate some Viking Software stuff which has the features<br>
>> that we need but, man, low tech, 8 character file names, keyboard<br>
>> overlays required, etc.<br>
>><br>
>> We process about 10,000 hand written forms a month entered from<br>
>> scanned images on screen. Each form is entered twice by separate<br>
>> people and compared for accuracy. some fields are looked up in a<br>
>> table to auto populate other fields which can then be accepted or<br>
>> edited. nothing to fancy. Has anyone here run across anything I should<br>
>> be looking into?<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Tom Penney<br>
>><br>
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