changing focus

GRML is moving away from mimicking the web-focused markup language. This is not to say it loses its web capabilites. Rather, it indicates a recognition of the value of data-oriented file formats.

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HTML satisfactorily fills the role as a display-oriented markup language for the web. If not, there are complementary technologies to fill gaps. These include CSS, DHTML, and Javascript. When that is not sufficient, there are new technologies to improve HTML, such as XHTML.

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By not trying to complement HTML, GRML is able to focus on other areas where data is limited by its formatting. Of couse, this includes XML and delimited formats. But, it also includes binary-based formats, used in properietary software.

While the desire is not to make GRML all things to all people, there are unquestionably opportunities to complement features lacking in other formats. It is in these deficiencies where GRML has the greatest opportunity to shine.

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using a filter tag

There are a few problems of having a filter tag.

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These are the attributes of filtering:

case-insensitive/insensitive
include/exclude
column
by selection/excluding selection
BOOLEAN "AND" "OR"
drill-down/new request
begins with.../ends with...

How do you represent these attributes in a tag?

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refocusing the format

After using GRML for the past couple of months, it is time to refocus the target audience.

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Instead of targeting users of web browsers, it appears there is more promise with business software users. Finding billing, inventory, scheduling, intranet, accounting, and contact management software users offers a ready market of customers.

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This changed focus, from web browser to workflow, does not require any substantial changes to the markup langauge. In fact, as things are now, there is no need to change anything. However, instead of spending time and resources on supporting multimedia formats, the time is available for data management.

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The next improvement, for GRML, is to add support for grouping. There are many ways to implement this, but it is taking time determining which works best with the existing GRML releases.

adding a history tag -- revisited

After working with history tags, for the first year and a half, there are many things to consider in their implementation.

There are form, query, and data tags residing in a GRML file or web page. However, history tags do not reside in any of these groups. This is because the content of the tag only populates the history window.

The history window is always a list control. However, many different controls are used for input and displaying data. The query tags do not use controls at all, so they are universally useful.

Maybe it is necessary to add a history tag for reading and saving file and web page requests. However, it is going to be a last resort.

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