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I think it could be done. The plugin itself is actually very clean code and doesn't need a lot of maintenance (well, someone has to update it to Access 2010, b
by apenwarr 15y ago
I think it could be done. The plugin itself is actually very clean code and doesn't need a lot of maintenance (well, someone has to update it to Access 2010, but that's probably not so bad). The server is crazy because it has Wine+Access+X11+VNC+Flash. Mostly the problem there is Access. But because the plugin has already done the insane work of exporting an Access database structure as text (and incidentally, re-importing it), all you need is a replacement server.
The actual form layout files (now that they're in text form) are pretty straightforward. Someone who really loves javascript + html5 could probably make this happen with a few months of work, at least for databases that don't get too fancy. (And the users are actually willing to modify their apps to make them work; slightly modifying Access apps is okay, rewriting them on a new platform is not.)
It would probably be much less gross that way, but I just don't have enough patience left to try it. I'd totally recommend it to a fresh hacker with some free time though :)