Re: Re: JavaScript Question relating to netWindows

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On Monday 19 January 2004 8:43 am, Roy Weston wrote:
> I was thinking more about supporting multiple markups at the same
> time such that if netWindows detected a browser that supported XUL,
> it would render what it could in XUL, otherwise 'degrade' to
> netWindows decorated DOM Nodes, and finally 'degrade' to the
> original page markup. The same with SVG, i.e. XUL renderer -> SVG
> renderer -> netWindows Decorated renderer -> plain old page.

I guess this is a logical extension of what I'd been considering. 
Right now, most NW widgets have a "degradeable" inline constructor 
which allows them to be rendered as workable (if not pretty) parts of 
a UI when NW isn't avaialable because of whatever limitation. For 
things like SVG and XUL , I really see the big benefits there being 
angled lines (think ER diagrams). Beyond that, there are interesting 
applications to our object model, but I don't think any of them are 
quite as pressing.

What you're talking about would require some detection engine to 
figure out what rendering we'd use at any given time. Not hard I'd 
think, and we could easily extend the __widget__ registration 
mechanism to support it...hrm...I think I'm starting to see a plan 
= )

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