Posted by Mike.Duffy on 03/10/07 03:41

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in
news:MpOHh.11245$GL6.2947@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi:

> Scripsit Mike.Duffy:
>
>> My "application" is a js program that creates a customized short
>> story intended for a juvenile audience.
>
> So your problem has nothing to do with authoring for the WWW,

It is intended as a WWW-based application. I thought that was implicit by
virtue of the use of javascript and the "http://" url references.

> Surely there are better ways to create a user interface for an
> interactive program.

After the items are entered in the form and the button is pressed, it is
not really interactive anymore. The advantage of using the Web based
approach is that the end-user does not need to install a program to run it.

>
> It sounds like you have no good reason to use HTML in the first place.

Bringing smiles to the faces of children around the world is a good enough
reason for me. What would you consider to be a good reason?

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