On Wednesday 19 November 2003 12:47 am, Robin Berjon wrote: > Do you have specific technical ideas that we should work on to > facilitate this?
In my (short) experience building Mozilla+XUL applications, the thing I noticed the need for most was RDF input. I've been developing a really sweet intranet application for a little over a year. It's built in AxKit and is full of sexy graphs and little buttons and icons, and is very neat. But, it is also horrifically slow due to the sheer number of forms and elements that must be processed on every screen refresh. I've started transitioning my application to use a Mozilla XUL client application, installed using a download from the intranet website, that presents the user with a fat client interface to the same server-side intranet application. Mozilla has made a really big commitment to RDF for all manner of aspects of it's basic operations; tree views, templated XUL sections (for repeatable clusters of display elements), menus and so on can all be programmatically built using RDF as a datasource. The bummer about all this is I find it pretty hard to generate RDF using AxKit. I ended up dropping down into a plain'ol mod_perl handler, and printed out the RDF tags manually. My XUL application is still just a prototype, but I'd like to see this functionality merged into AxKit more before going whole-hog into it. So, anyway, to answer the question, I would like to see better support for outputting RDF in AxKit. Perhaps I had better spit the RDF out as a result of an XSL transform, but somehow that never occurred to me before. -- /* Michael A. Nachbaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://nachbaur.com/pgpkey.asc */ "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
