RE: Database using PHP+CSS+HTML UI: does it really work?

Hi Steve, Recently at our site we investigated essentially the same thing ( we did not use CSS tho...) We wanted to see if we could reasonably expect to design a property maintenance system to replace our ( Oracle forms 4.5 ) client-server one using these web tools. I was keen to model the UI paradigm on something like Amazon or Cdnow, rather than our existing Client-server systems...unfortunately the others wanted to see how close we could get... So we ended up adding JavaScript to the equation, and relying on latest HTML tags that not all browsers support - in short only Ie5 worked with this system. The consequence of this was complicated coding ( to dynamically create the JavaScript ) and a "cluttered" UI (to match the sophistication of our existing systems ). Somewhere along the way ( at the start ? ) I think we lost sight of the fact that "the system only exists to DO some business functions" and the SIMPLER the UI the better... My 2c Mark