Re: ...words from the other side...

Hi Lon,

[Lon Boonen Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:47:39PM +0200]
> Once in a while I can't resist temptation so I sneek in and start
> reading the BXE-dev archive.
> Today was such a day.
> 
> And it was a day full of surprises... That is why I decided to subscribe
> and add my opinion to this IE discussion you are having.

i think you raised some interesting technical questions and criticism. 
But i also doubt that mixing this with political and company-level
statements is the most brilliant idea.

Let's presume that javascript-based technology is the way to 
go if you want to connect to other free software projects.

Now should we work with XML structures on the client side
or with HTML structures?   You argue that HTML is better because
there is widespread quasi-standard support for it.  But the
real question to me is: how de we realize a user experience that
is similar to MS's Wordpad.  The question if i transfer the content 
using xml or html is a second issue.

Now, how do Bitflux and Xopus each try to implement a basic Wordpad 
user experience?  Or do you disagree that this should be the goal?
E.g. how do you handle events, how much access do you have to the screen
(selections, cursors) how *could* you do a file dialog (inserting an 
image etc.)?  Questions like these are to be answered if you want
to do a client-side WYSIWYG-application that uses a server-side CMS 
for workflow, collaboration and storage.  Please realize that we
are talking about one of the next internet revolutions here :-)

one-issue-at-a-time'ly yours, Holger
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