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There is one additional point, and that is, the generic client has to handle multiple languages which of course web browsers do. I do wonder what the overhead of that is, but given the managed code idea, it can't be horrific. The reason I bring it up is that one advantage of say, VFP, is the Fox language itself. It is easy to work in a relational system given the commands available. Productivity is part of the equation here. I doubt that I would want to spend a lot of time designing forms first in SVG, then writing generic scripts to do the job of a compiled app language. Again, I like SVG. I am also rooting for X3D. The most compelling experience I've had on the web was the Cybertown concerts. Real time 3D is something mysteriously evocative because after just a bit of experience, it really does become like being there, warts and all. So a forms-based system may be the day gig bread and butter, but at night, avatars rule. The future may be something a lot more different than say, XForms or XDocs will support. But then, as I said, nothing is inevitable. len
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