Le ven 06/12/2002 à 13:23, Philippe Jadin a écrit :
Hi,
there is also UIML http://www.uiml.org/index.php link in french http://aristote1.aristote.asso.fr/Presentations/UIML/
It seems there is currently work done on the future UI for zope3. I have some questions / comments on this (I hope it's the right list...)
- Isn't it strange to use html to create a modular user interface? As I see it, html is not an UI definition language.
- is there currently active projects to build a fat client interface for zope using xul or other technology?
If html is not the right tool for the job, and if xul is really as good as it seems :
- zope should use an intermediate layer between the core logic / datastructures and the UI. This layer could be something like xul
- xul is xml, and as such could be "converted" to xhtml. The conversion would reduce a lot the usability (you cannot do everything xul does with html), but at least there would be a single source of UI definition and multiple implementations (simple html, "flashy" dhtml, pure mozilla xul, etc...).
- xul can be used directely in mozilla, providing a very powerfull client-side interface. I think it can be seen as a rapid interface developement tool.
In short,
zope core -> "html ui" is not too good zope core -> "something" -> html would be more modular.
the "something" could be xul... or wathever, the point is "there must be something" :)
What do you think?
Philippe Jadin
ps : is it possible to contact the people currently working at the infrae sprint (irc?)?
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