Re: nWindows status

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On Tuesday 14 September 2004 7:24 pm, Chris Were wrote:
> Hello all,

Welcome to the list. FYI, the name of the project is currently=20
changing from "netwindows" to "nwidgets". Long story.

> I've been working on my own DHTML widget toolkit - very primitive,
> but very similar ideas to your much more advanced net windows. I
> was only developing the toolkit to assist the development of a
> particular application (to see where i've got to:
> http://tahpot.homeip.net/)

You certainly have better eye for design than I do =3D )

> As such, i'm looking at starting using netWindows instead of my own
> DHTML code, but I have some questions. I have downloaded what
> appears to be the latest version (v0.4.0pre6) but some of the
> examples don't appear to work. Is this the latest?

I just built a pre14 version for internal consumption at Informatica.=20
You can grab it from:

	http://nwidgets.org/releases/netWindows_0.4.0pre14.tar.gz

> The questions I have are:
> - does NW have full support for XMLHttpRequest?

Yes. It's not well docmented I'm afraid, but the support is there.=20
Mail me off-list for details.

> - can it be styled completely with CSS?

Most widgets can, yes, but you need to throw a config flag to turn=20
this on. It is documented in the __config__ object.

> - is it cross browser - mainly interested in ie5+ and mozilla as
> thats about 95%

Yep! We support just about everything save NN4.x and IE5mac. NW is=20
known to work today on Safari, IE, Mozilla, and Opera 7.5 (with some=20
caveats).

> Looks like a great project that you have going here.

Thanks! hopefully you'll find it useful.

Regards

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