Web-based GUI technology for OpenMoko

Matthew S. Hamrick mhamrick at cryptonomicon.net
Tue Jun 12 05:43:35 CEST 2007


Wow. once again Apple justifies our lead.
On Jun 11, 2007, at 5:54 PM, adrian cockcroft wrote:
> Also, Apple's announcement today about iPhone development using 
> AJAX and exposing internal phone functions as web services to the 
> iPhone's safari browser is tipping everything in the same direction.
>> Cheers Adrian
>> On 6/11/07, Matthew S. Hamrick <mhamrick at cryptonomicon.net> wrote:
> Yeah... we're thinking that we were going to totally separate the
> model and domain processing from the view/controller part of the
> application. That way we could have a couple different HTML
> interfaces as well as a SVG/ECMAScript interface. I'm not terribly
> familiar with XAML or XUL, but I understand that most (if not all) of
> the Firefox / Mozilla / Navigator interface was written in XUL.
>> This is one of the benefits to this approach, IMHO. Separating the
> interface allows us to experiment with a number of different
> interface technologies. And the only thing the experimenters need to
> know is the semantics and syntax of the XML interface.
>> -Cheers!
> -Matt H.
>> On Jun 11, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Tim Newsom wrote:
>> > If we are heading in the direction of web interfaces, I think we
> > should look at XAML or XUL or something similar. From what I can
> > tell, they will be adding silverlight support to mono, so using
> > XAML will be possible. This also separates the code for
> > functionality from the interface and can allow skinning of the
> > entire application interface set.
> >
> > This will abstract you from every widget set. Each action could be
> > exported and called from the UI without needing to worry about all
> > that.
> >
> > At least, that's my take on it currently.
> >
> > --Tim
> > On 2007年6月11日 8:44, Florent THIERY wrote:
> >> Here's a little look-and-feel example that could be done with an
> >> opensource AJAX framework [javascript required]:
> >>
> >> http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/showcase
> >>
> >> This may allow easier separation between apps and GUIs. Of 
> course, as
> >> usual we have no idea how well such an app would perform (little &
> >> gratuitous prediction: very bad), benchmarking is needed but ... 
> who
> >> knows ?
> >>
> >> This is going along with the ongoings gdk webkit port and gsmd
> >> XmlHttpRequest interface (was topic: embedded webserver).
> >>
> >> What do you think ? Is it REALLY unrealistic ? Could anybody try 
> the
> >> url on it's Nokia N770 (lots of happy owners here, right?) and 
> rough
> >> feedback the responsiveness ?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Florent
> >>
> >
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