RE: how did we miss Echo?

I agree. They have some nicely designed buttons to click but not much else.
There is too much loading going on. nW will be far more attractive to
develop real client/side apps once it is stable, especially since it does
not require any java contraptions. 

Christian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Flanagan
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:35 AM
> To: netWindows development discussion list
> Subject: Re: [NW-Devel] how did we miss Echo?
> 
> 
> I took a quick look at their demo apps and their widgets and wasn't 
> particularly impressed.
> 
> Their stuff is still doing round trips and refreshing the 
> whole browser.
> 
>  From what I could tell, none of their apps have the same 
> level of rich 
> frontend that we're achieving internally by leveraging the nw 
> code. We 
> keep doing Cool Stuff(tm) on the interactivity front and I just don't 
> see it in their solution. I'd be way happier if they spent their time 
> helping implement CSS2 into their favorite browser of choice and 
> leveraging a JS lib like nw/domAPI/they_can_pick_whatever and 
> have at it.
> 
> I just want to get our current product finished so we can actually 
> _show_ ppl what we're up to with nw/dhtml.
> 
> --Michael
> 
> Alex Russell wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Am I smoking crack and living under a rock? How exactly did I miss 
> > what Echo
> > was all about? There's a story on /. linking to this article set:
> > 
> > 	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-echo1/
> > 	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-echo2/
> > 
> > Basically, it's a set of Java classes that generate the 
> DHTML side of 
> > things
> > "transparently". This is the kind of tying I've been trying 
> to avoid, but 
> > they seem to have done it somewhat successfully. Now if 
> only I could find 
> > somewhere to just look at their JS and not get all the Java 
> crap they want to 
> > shove too.
> > 
> 
> 
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