RE: Pretty Impressive Gui...

Yep,

Been investigating http://www.netwindows.org/

Looking pretty good so far.
Only supports modern browsers which is ok by me.

Plus, they use the dom/divs to generate javascript components/widgets
which is easier to render serverside than javascript code.

E.g.

<div nwType="alert_box">
	<div nwProperty="headerText">from inline constructor</div>
	<div nwProperty="width">150</div>
	<div nwProperty="alertText"><input type="button"
onclick="__components__.getComponentFromNode(this).getTopLevelComponent().remove();"
value="close alert box"></div>
	<div nwProperty="height">50</div>
</div>

Anyway...

-KD



>>> [email protected] 2004/01/29 16:01:01 >>>
> However all this made me wonder if it would be possible to write
> renderers for BComponents in order to generate DomAPI elements
instead
> of plain HTML... My boss will never buy me some time to sort this
out,
> but on a technical side it would be interesting I think.

Well, this is precisely the reason why we designed the components the
way we
did. I don't know much about the DomAPI stuff, but if you can get your
template as a DOM object, and then identify that its specifically a
DomAPI
type of DOM, the components could very easily load a custom set of
renderers
and away you go. Then it'd just be a matter of writing the
renderers...it'd
take some time to identify/work out any kinks, but probably not more
than a
couple of weeks (and possibly much faster).

If you are interested in trying something like this, I'd be happy to
offer
pointers on the component rendering stuff.

Christian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Mark van
Leeuwen
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:46 AM
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: Re: [Barracuda] Pretty Impressive Gui...
>
>
> Kirk Daries wrote:
>
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >Came across this 2 days ago ....
> >
> >http://www.isomorphic.com/ 
> >
> >Check out the demo page.
> >
> >
>
> FYI, I've been experimenting with DomAPI lately, which is very
> impressive too, however less expensive and it is a browser thing
only
> (except the RPC thingy), so using it with any server-side technology
is
> not a problem. Isomorphic, technically impressing indeed, but seems
to
> put some constrains on how on the server-side you do your stuff.
>
> However all this made me wonder if it would be possible to write
> renderers for BComponents in order to generate DomAPI elements
instead
> of plain HTML... My boss will never buy me some time to sort this
out,
> but on a technical side it would be interesting I think.
>
> --
> Mark
>
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