Re[2]: [Zope] JavaScript windows like framework?

[Geir Bækholt]

XUL and mozilla would give tremedous opportunities for a
brilliant interface , but by going for w3c's DOM1 and 2 , one would be
more or less platform-independent with most of the features anyway..
As of today M$IE (win and mac), mozilla, Konqueror (i think) all
support DOM level 1 (and some of level 2) to some extent , and Opera is just around the
corner.
(Netscape 4.x is broken by design, though, - but i expect this to
be common knowledge by now)

You could easily create an interface miles better than the one there
is today without being tied to a specific platform, using just
standards-based tools.. - and by going standard DOM , and leaving NN4x
out , you wouldnt need much of a cross browser API, even , because
they all tend to suppprt the same standards..

- and , yes , i would love to be part of a project like this, time
premitting..
:-)


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Geir Bækholt
Web-Developer/Zopatista
geirh@funcom.com
http://www.funcom.com

on or about, Tuesday, April 24, 2001, we have reason to believe that seb bacon wrote something along the lines of :
sb> * Morten W. Petersen <morten@thingamy.net> [010424 10:42]:
>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Etienne  Labuschagne wrote:
.......
>> 
>> 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.

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

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

sb> seb.