On 30 Dec 2006, at 04:32, Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
On 12/29/06, John Napiorkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So I guess my question is would people like a GWT like
system for Catalyst and if so what would you like to
see in it?
I've been thinking a lot about these sort of things lately but I
couldn't come up with a clean way to do it the way I envisioned it.
I think one of the most relevant concepts of these toolkits such as
GWT is the ability to have everything represented as widgets. I don't
know if it's just me but I've always failed when trying to to cleanly
code real widgets using the Catalyst + TT + DBIC combo. I always ended
up with something that violated MVC (or was just plain ugly). Either I
had lots of TT code that talked directly to the model or I had view
logic leaked into my controllers.
I think I may have succeeded, finally. Next hacking session I have on
Reaction will be to add the layout layer, which should be the last
piece of the puzzle (well, base-design-wise anyway, there'll be
plenty work left to get automatic partials and other JS widget
goodness).
But yes, this is a Really, Really Hard Problem (tm). It's taken me
over a year and probably a couple dozen redesigns to get as far as I
have and I'm still only 80% sure this is the right answer.
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