And also, yeah, not everyone is strong in Javascript so the next person who comes down the road ends up creating more problems than the one they are debugging!
I think Flash will really take off once us developers start using it as the defacto UI for our webapps, or atleast the defacto standard for rich web widgets mixed in with our plain-jane html/jsp.
Craig W. Tataryn
From: Brice Ruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: Examples of HTML-based user interfaces? Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:46:45 -0600
I don't think understanding it is the key here ... I think maintenance of it, specifically maintenance by other developers besides the original developer, becomes a bit of a nightmare, and that's my definition of 'ugly' ... :) Dynamically rewriting the HTML on a page does really get ugly ... the facilities to do it are there, but they aren't very nice, IMHO ... especially when you start needing to support the ideosyncracies of IE v. Moz ... which still exist, unfortunately. IE's DOM support isn't as full-fledged as what Moz has, and IE supports certain proprietary things, still, that Moz does not.
Craig Tataryn wrote:
If you understand javascript, DHTML and DOM, then it won't appear as "Ugly" as Brice suggests . Take a look at those webfx widgets, very nice clean code.
Craig W. Tataryn
From: "ajay brar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Examples of HTML-based user interfaces? Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:13:04 +1100
hi!
A pity a student like me doesn't qualify for a beta version of Flex.
I believe DHTML currently provides a really good way of managing those fancy HTML interfaces.
cheers Ajay
From: Brice Ruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: Examples of HTML-based user interfaces? Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:22:38 -0600
You might be interested in a previous post that talked about Macromedia's new Flash+Struts integration ... that would give you all the GUI goodness you could imagine, without getting into writing what would almost necessarily have to be some ugly DHTML.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/struts.html
Wendy Smoak wrote:
Does anyone have examples of some fancy things to do with HTML-based
user interfaces? For example, I've currently got a request to show two
"boxes" of items with add/remove arrows. So selecting in the left-hand
box and clicking the arrow will move the item to the right hand box.
I'm sure it's possible with CSS, JavaScript and hidden form fields.
(I'm pretty sure they got the idea from adding recipients to an email in
Outlook.)
I also have a long-standing requirement to dynamically "grow" a field,
when the user types something in a text box and clicks a button, that
item "moves up" and a new, blank field appears. I'm currently doing
this with an "add" button, which submits the form to the Struts app, the
entry gets added to a session scope bean, then back to the form with
read-only displays of the stuff in the bean and [the same] blank field.
(Although it looks like a "new line", it isn't, it's the same form
field.)
Googling turns up a bunch of essays on what makes a good user interface,
but not too much on tips and tricks.
-- Brice D. Ruth Sr. IT Analyst Fiskars Brands, Inc.
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