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Subject:RE: DBs and online forms From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:22:03 -0400
It's almost trivial to do using VS2005. It generates ordinary XML coding and
should be compatible with all browsers.
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Peter
All things being equal,
a fat person uses more soap
than a skinny person
> You can set up an Acrobat form on a web site such that when someone
> fills in the data and clicks Submit, the data from the form is put
> into a database. I created a proof of concept for this very
> functionality some years back. You can see it in action here:
>
>http://jsp.davidcastro.com/acrobat/index.html
>
> Interestingly, when I tried accessing this just now from Firefox, I
> got a message indicating that I couldn't do that operation. I'm not
> sure what's up with that, but it works from IE. I am pretty sure I've
> accessed it from Firefox in the past. But anyway....
>
> If you have any questions about how this is done, please let me know.
>
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