html forms vs revlets

[Judy Perry]

I had been wondering the same thing as Ron... Thanks for further info, 
Sarah; I, too, will be following this :-)

Judy

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> I hadn't thought of using revlets in the place of forms but it is an
> interesting thought.
> Currently, we have html forms and the data they send can easily be
> processed using irev scripts.
> If you had a revlet acting as the form, there seem to be two ways it
> could handle the submitted data. Either it could "POST" it all off to
> a .irev file exactly or all the processing could be done in the revlet
> itself, with any emails generated (using the mail shell command) and
> data saved.
>
> Obviously, for us Rev people, the idea of constructing a form in Rev
> is much easier than constructing it as HTML, but it does limit your
> form fillers to people prepared to install the plugin.
>
> Anyway, it's definitely worth trying and I would love to hear how you
> get on with it.