There is still nothing more tedious in the web world...

[acroyear]

...than writing html forms, writing their handlers in whatever client-side language you use (php, jsp, cgi/perl, whatever), getting it to automagically fill in existing values, making sure the data sent from the client is html-safe (no sending content that could interfere with the form itself), making sure the form entry is sending the data to the write receiving script, validating it on the receiving end, and finally updating it in the datastore and deciding where the user should go when it gets updated.

nothing more tedious at all.

then there's adding javascript to the various parts like auto-submitting on a select object.

HTML/CGI is beautiful for data display.

for data entry, its the most utterly tedious thing the web has to offer, both from the users and the programmers point of views...