Re: Questions about netwindows, probably a faq

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Hi Austin,

On Sunday 04 April 2004 11:45 am, Austin Schutz wrote:
> 	Ok, I did actually read the faq first, 

I think you're the first person ever = )

> but here are a couple
> questions I'm hoping to find answers for:
>
> 	Is netwindows in cvs somewhere accessible?

Yes. Our CVS is hosted on SourceForge. Since SourceForge CVS for 
anonymous users is lame, we've setup a user called "sfsucks" which 
has read-only perms on the "live" version of our CVS instead of the 
12-hour delayed version.

http://sf.net/cvs/?group_id=20631

Use username "sfsucks" and password "anonymous".

> 	The mailing list archive link is broken from the mailing list web
> page. Is there a working link to the archive somewhere?

Thanks for the head's up. It looks pretty borken right now. I'll see 
what I can do.

> 	How does netwindows compare in functionality to other dhtml
> toolkits, such as activeui/activewidgets?

I hadn't really looked at activewidgets, but it's interesting to see 
another toolkit taking our on-load parsing idea and running with it 
almost in parallel to our work. This toolkit looks new-ish. Do you 
know the people behind it? Do they have widgets beyond this grid 
thing?

As for how we compare to other toolkits, we are DOM-based (no NN4 
support) and the guiding philosophy for the toolkit is to help the 
browser out where the browser can't do something itself. This means 
we attempt to avoid duplicating functionality where possible and we 
try to support standards in principle wherever it makes sense. We've 
done a lot of work to support "degradeable DHTML" and the toolkit has 
been designed to be easily useable for both developers and end users. 
I think all of those things make us very different from many of the 
other toolkits you'll find.

As for raw number of widgets, I don't think we're the most capable in 
that regard, but we're getting there.

> 	Do you have a favorite debugging tool?

Mozilla's Venkman and our own __log__ object.

> 	Anyway, I'm really excited about netwindows, it's exactly what
> I've been looking for to solve several of my web programming
> annoyances. I'm hoping to be able to contribute a litle development
> time on it.

There are lots of places where we can use help. If you want 
suggestions for places where we can use assistance, just send me mail 
privately ([email protected]).

Regards

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