nitralime wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Adam Chlipala
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As you surely know, there are also some growing tendencies
towards SPI (Single Page Interface) and RIA (Rich Internet
Application).
For this sort of applications one needs a solid GUI toolkit.
As far as I know there are two different approches for
providing GUI:
1) using a prebuilt JavaScript GUI toolkit wrapped in some APIs
which in ideal case integrate seamlessly into the core
framework
2) [[a subset of the framework's core language) -->
JavaScript]] compiler
which provides the GUI toolkit
The first alternative can be "easily" realized by taking some
web framework and
a decent JavaScript GUI toolkit like TIBCO General Interface,
Javeline, dhtmlx,
Qooxdoo, (to some extent flapjax) etc. and writing some glue
codes!
The second approach is more fundamental. To the best of my
knowledge
HOP and Links are the only frameworks that implement it properly.
I've tried to design the demos and manual to make it clear that
both options are possible in Ur/Web. The compiler generates
JavaScript for client-side code, and the FFI makes it possible to
wrap JavaScript libraries.
Can you please give me a short example (but not a trivial one a la
'alert("Hello World!")')
for each of these two alternatives?
The latter part of the main demo is all examples of GUIs implemented in
Ur/Web and compiled to JavaScript. I have no examples presently of
wrapped JavaScript GUI libraries.
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