Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:47:15 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4991613.402.1322750835352.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prij11> References: <1hjed71dvvgkiut8mb1i17lo2gaf6ot76s@4ax.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.java.help@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.164.137.214 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1322750843 29737 127.0.0.1 (1 Dec 2011 14:47:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:47:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1hjed71dvvgkiut8mb1i17lo2gaf6ot76s@4ax.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.164.137.214; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:1413 Roedy Green wrote: ... > I am watching HTML forms gradually evolving toward the state of the > art in 1984. With HTML forms we have a less responsive product, with > less functionality using orders of magnitude more resources, much > buggier tools, and far less WORA. Gaak! They didn't have WORA in 1984. You couldn't even count on PC programs working on other PCs. Much less count on portability in the mainframe programs of which you speak. -- Lew