HTML Pages via REXX
As the old saying goes "necessity is the mother of invention".
That became true a year ago when I started putting together several forms
to help my students keep track of their scores and grades. It became
quickly apparent that creating these forms is not fun and not having fun
makes the task all that much harder. Especially when it comes to
repetitive forms. Typing the same HTML code over and over is - hmmm,
how shall we say it - well, aggrevating comes to mind. Loathsome
soon follows.
There is Netscape Composer that is somewhat of a wysiwyg
composer of HTML, but even it can be tedious to use in certain circumstances.
Here are three examples: Example
1 , Example 2 , and Example
3 . While all of them can be done in Netscape Composer it would
be time consuming and tiring. The solution is to create REXX programs
that will emit HTML code as its output and do it over and over without
complaining.