25 Apr
2011
25 Apr
'11
6:46 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich(a)vmware.com> wrote:
On 04/25/2011 09:12 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
I don't know that neither.
Hi Dale. I guess you are already aware of...but
... SUPPOSE that Glamour
is enough for your needs. Glamour can result in plain Morphic but also
in seaside. So would be able to have both flavors: image based in
Glamour for those who want everything image based, and a web alternative
(for example for Gemstone).
But...I have no idea how stable/complete the GlamourWeb is, nor if it
contains what you need.
And finally, did you consider SeasideXUL ? But I guess it may happens
what you don't want: spend more time in the framework than in your job :(
I don't have Glamour ported to GemStone (has it been ported to Squeak?) and
I don't know if I gain in the end ... Can one build a wizard in Glamour ?
... I've spent a lot of time trying to bend OmniBrowser to my will, but
there are some things that are just not easy to do in OmniBrowser ... I
don't know myself if Glamour can do what i have in mind or how much bending
to my will it will take:)
If someone built a wizard in Glamour for creating a
complex configuration
(like Seaside or Moose) then it might be enough to motivate my to attempt
the port:)
But if is up to me, I am going to go with something I already know (I just
don't have enough time to do what I know, let alone what I don't know)
I already pretty much know what I would have to do to do a wizard for a web
browser ...
I appreciate the suggestions to use framework x, y, or z to solve the
problem, but I am not an expert in any of the frameworks, and if a framework
isn't ported to GemStone is it worth porting the framework to GemStone only
to find that it doesn't fill the bill? Conversely if I build the wizard in
technology z and then find out that it is very difficult to port to
GemStone, where am I?
If fact, what I was thinking is that from Glamour you can generate the
Seaside output, so for Gemstone you don't need to port anything, just use
the seaside components generated from Glamour (be careful, this is how I
think Glamour-seaside works but maybe I am wrong and you need glamour
anyway)
Using a web framework I am very confident that I could
get a model/ui built
that does the job and is portable to all three platforms ... I can't say
that (with confidence) for any other approach...
Sure. But it is realy really bad to see we don't have a single way of
creating portable browsers/wizzard or whatever they are called between 3
dialects.
--
Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com