Re: XForms: Problem

Amit Bhatnagar (amit@cs.dal.ca)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:09:10 -0400 (AST)

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Amit Bhatnagar <amit@cs.dal.ca> :

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> >I am trying to relate newspaper articles with their associated pictures,
> >which are currently in jpeg format. Now, after making an information
> >retreival system that allows the user to type in a query and see all of
> >the relevant articles, I would like to also show the associated picture.
> >The pictures are all in jpeg format, and each have their own thumbnail.
>
> Not to be glib, but I would imagine that for all kinds of reasons, the
> best way to do this is to write your application using HTML/CGI/Java
> and forget about XForms. You'll gain all kinds of subtle and
> not-so-subtle benefits without having to code them yourself.

well my app is written in perl using xforms4perl.. and I would like to
keep it within one application. Is there any other way to accomplish my
goal?

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