GUIs - ruby on rails, rico

[bryan rasmussen]

given that the upcoming builds of firefox/mozilla should also be SVG
capable I would suppose that SVG will be the better overall platform
for doing it. I have seen a demo of svg inside canvas and canvas
inside xhmtl inside svg etc. running in a private mozilla build. was
pretty impressive.

On 9/19/05, bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@REDACTED> wrote:
> If you're talking about what I think, the Canvas as an editable vector
> graphics area is part of the whatwg specifications
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
> 
> whatwg has various browser manufacturers/implementors as part of their
> group, but not IE.
> It has not been finalized in their specs yet IIRC thus given this I am
> not surprised as to the lack of examples as yet.
> 
> On 9/19/05, Joe Armstrong (AL/EAB) <joe.armstrong@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > It's even better than I thought. The Canvas widget *is* in
> > Firefox 1.5 beta 1 and runs out of the box!!!
> >
> > Strangely there are very few working examples on the net to show how the
> > canvas is used.
> >
> > This is amazing - up to now it has been difficult to direct display vector graphics
> > on the web - with the canvas widget this is easy.
> >
> > Wow
> >
> > /Joe
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED
> > > [mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED]On Behalf Of Joe Armstrong
> > > (AL/EAB)
> > > Sent: den 19 september 2005 11:22
> > > To: erlang-questions
> > > Subject: GUIs - ruby on rails, rico
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It seems like my quest for a GUI is almost over.
> > >
> > > Klacke had pointed me at XMLHTTP but I just didn't get it (dumbo) -
> > >
> > > Then I hacked a bit and - WOW. Firstly XMLHTTP is nothing
> > > about XML - it's just allows
> > > a light weight RPC to made from within a web page. So you
> > > connect a bit
> > > of JavaScript to an event - this JavaScript RPCs a server,
> > > the server replies with
> > > a string that the JavaScript interprets (any old string - not
> > > necessarily XML)
> > > and the JavaScript modifies the web page.
> > >
> > > The last bit (the JavaScript modifies the web page) is the
> > > tricky bit - to
> > > do this you need to use the DOM - which is (uuugh) painful.
> > >
> > > Fortunately there are libraries to do this - ruby on rails
> > > uses prototype.js to do this
> > > http://prototype.conio.net/ And Tobbe has written a library
> > > (jungerl/lib/js) to take to prototype.js
> > >
> > > Also of interest is rico http://openrico.org/rico/home.page
> > > (especially their innerHTML
> > > demo) (see
> > > http://openrico.org/rico/demos.page?demo=ricoAjaxInnerHTML.html)
> > >
> > > As far as I can see one could make a pretty snazzy GUI in a
> > > web brower with
> > >
> > >       - a local HTTP server (yaws)
> > >       - XMLHTTP and
> > >       - rico or prototype.js
> > >
> > > Also in the pipeline is an HTML extension <canvas> which has
> > > made it to
> > > safari and mozilla - this is looking good.
> > >
> > > What would be even nicer would be a port of the konfabulator to linux
> > > http://www.konfabulator.com/ - since this (I think) would
> > > solve all my GUI problems.
> > >
> > > This technology is about to explode - so yaws should be well placed -
> > > this means that servers are going to be handling a lot of
> > > lightweight RPCs
> > >
> > > So go hack
> > >
> > > /Joe
> > >
> > >
> >
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