[Zope] JavaScript windows like framework?

[seb bacon]

* Morten W. Petersen <morten@thingamy.net> [010424 10:42]:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Etienne  Labuschagne wrote:
> > One can make sure that only the JavaScript relevant to the user's browser is
> > sent (by using aquisitioning).  This gives one quite a advantage over the
> > other guys who must in effect send three or more sets of source code to the
> > client's browser with the browser (using ifs, etc.) deciding which piece of
> > code to use.
> 
> Implementing a GUI framework would be relatively easy, using projects such
> as the DynAPI [1] would lessen the time needed considerably.
> 
> There has been a somewhat similar project previously, but AFAIK Zope
> development only (Zope Studio or something) for Mozilla.  DynAPI aims at
> being cross-browser, enabling users with reasonably modern browsers to use
> applications built with it.
> 
> This could be the killer application for Zope.

I'd love to collaborate on this, one day, when I have a moment or ten
;-)  I want to create a gui for my CMF products, so users who only
ever run MSWord will be able to create and mark up content.  There's
already plenty of DHTML out there to do some of the bits.  I think the
main effort would be designing a really extensible framework which
could layer over Zope in all its future incarnations.

I'd be very keen on a mozilla-only solution, personally, although I'm
sure I won't get much agreement on that (the phrase 'can of worms'
springs to mind)...  The problem is, Navigator simply can't fully
support things like WYSIWYG text editing components, and I'm loathe to
tie my users to IE.  By developing for mozilla, you'd have a *truly*
cross-platform codebase, as well as all the exciting possibilites of
XUL and a whiff of even more ambitious projects (pyXPCOM, anyone?)

seb.