Post #198,968
3/16/05 10:30:39 AM
8/21/07 6:39:34 AM
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Its the wave of the future
I happen to manage the group focused on building the framework for this (its two guys). The number of groups signing up to use their stuff is exploding. They've got a complete windowing system and widget toolkit built.
Sometime this summer you will begin to see very fancy new features launch at my employer based on this approach. Ultimately I think the browsers are going to become fairly rich clients. Safari on the Mac is getting new vector drawing commands to support dashboard widgets. You can do rich graphics compositing from javascript. Other browsers will likely follow suit.
Its going to become standard procedure within 2 years.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #198,999
3/16/05 11:42:11 AM
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If that's the case...
... the I would hope it gets done and accepted before Avalon.
Are you aware of any FOSS toolkits?
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #199,044
3/16/05 1:22:17 PM
8/21/07 6:41:05 AM
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FOSS?
Like Free Open Source Software (I'm guessing here).
There are some parts around if you look.
[link|http://www.htmlarea.com/|http://www.htmlarea.com/] is a directory of wysiwyg text editors written as both js/dhtml and craplets (which we avoid because of response times).
Dynamic table widget: [link|http://www.activewidgets.com/grid/|http://www.activewidgets.com/grid/]
Calendar: [link|http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/|http://www.dynarch.c...rojects/calendar/]
Tree widget: [link|http://www.zapatec.com/website/main/zptree/html.html|http://www.zapatec.c.../zptree/html.html]
There's even a simple working spreadsheet around somewhere (can't find it just now).
Google away though - lots of stuff. One of those nifty text editors might be a nice addition to iwethey.
These are just examples. Its only recently that people have figured out that you can build non-trivial widgets using js/css/dhtml. Google maps is a great example as is the search as you type feature.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #199,054
3/16/05 2:19:34 PM
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Thanks.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #229,755
10/16/05 9:40:47 PM
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Just started using the calendar widget - very nice
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #229,988
10/18/05 5:36:55 PM
10/19/05 12:38:21 PM
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Lots of new JS toolkits have come out
recently.
[link|http://script.aculo.us|http://script.aculo.us] is a library of visual transitions that looks pretty decent.
[link|http://prototype.conio.net/|http://prototype.conio.net/] is a base library starting to catch on.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #230,002
10/18/05 7:05:41 PM
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Sheesh.
Prototype: Worst. Documentation. Evah.
I don't even know WTF that library is capable of. Or really what it's for. And yes, I've already browsed the source.
There are some excuses in the README... some noises about not providing documentation because there's no way to automate it. <rant>I DON'T GIVE A FUCK. At least write SOMETHING the fuck down! Examples, or a list of features; fucking ANYTHING would be better than "the source code is easy to read"! Pah!</rant>
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #230,025
10/18/05 10:47:38 PM
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Go to demos
[link|http://openrico.org/rico/demos.page|http://openrico.org/rico/demos.page]
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Post #230,027
10/18/05 11:03:20 PM
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Didn't see that link anywhere...
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #230,030
10/19/05 3:45:01 AM
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Seems it's "script.aculo.us", not "script.acul.ous". HTH!
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Post #230,065
10/19/05 12:39:01 PM
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Thx - Fixed
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #199,048
3/16/05 1:30:39 PM
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Re: If that's the case...
[link|http://www.bindows.net/|Bindows] is cool, but it's not open source
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Post #199,004
3/16/05 11:46:24 AM
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Holy-- You-- Son of a Blanchard
You always get the cool tech.
:(
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Post #199,197
3/17/05 10:46:49 AM
8/21/07 12:39:47 PM
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I have plenty of dull projects too
like I18N infrastructure. Adopted ICU, educated people, wrote a perl wrapper for some of it, developed tech to move string literals out of code, etc. Mind numbingly boring but I happen to be expert on the topic by virtue of etranslate experience.
The js lib is probably the coolest and most visible thing I have. It is way cool though.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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