Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <6035717.rH6HMBR8Db@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:28:53 +0200 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. <2610175.x4FWaXcEle@PointedEars.de> <7238984.617k9mAqVa@PointedEars.de> <3592620.Gox2ZXX9UI@PointedEars.de> Followup-To: comp.lang.javascript MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 49 NNTP-Posting-Date: 07 Oct 2012 14:28:53 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: d920a094.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=b;>?dQnhbdC78PK[oJ2ng@A9EHlD;3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA8kFK@nLCZKh];:6A[]kQGAKBUmJ X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:16446 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > I cannot describe my current project in public until it is further > along. You do not have to tell names in order to go into details. > I'm not asking for general help with my program design. But you did. > That's my problem. ISTM that your problem is that despite all your research you have made premature exclusions based on premature assessment based on limited experience. Describing the context of the problem in more detail to many people will most certainly show whether your exclusions actually have been premature. > I just wanted to check whether a specific user requirement could be met > using only HTML and JavaScript, after I had failed to find a solution by > reading books, web searching, thinking, and experiments. As I indicated > in my first article, I was fully aware of server based solutions, but > they are not appropriate for my application. > > I've got the answer to my question - I can only send text in an e-mail - > so I'm on to working with that answer. Actually, you have presented e-mail as the ideal solution, and you have asked if there was a better way. Due to your limited experience with client-side scripting, that initial assessment might have been wrong. > I don't think it is a big enough problem to make me change strategy from > HTML + JavaScript to installable application implementations for each > major group of environments. False dichotomy. > Thanks for your help, You are welcome. PointedEars -- > If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices" > in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right... Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field. -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14