<quote who="John Wang"> > On 5/28/07, Gavin Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Very nice, and definitely a Google App feel to it. I can see dojo etc. >> there too. >> >> It's fast and I like the red Loading... message, just like google. > > > Thanks Gavin. I'm glad you like it and that it's snappy for you. Keeping > the > performance acceptable was a big design objective. > > Is this a closed app? > > > It is closed for now but that may (or may not) change in the future. There > are a number of reasons why it may be pre-mature to open. I think it would > be more beneficial to start opening some of the underlying libraries and > adding functionality to some existing Perl modules, both of which would be > of more general use. Also, a number of architecture / design departures > were > made from standard practices so some discussion and proving is needed. A > while back I put together the following slides about what I learned from > building this project so far. I'd like to see if the ideas in there are > generally useful and if / how they could work with a higher layer of > abstraction, e.g. Reaction, which would also provide more broad ranging > benefits. > > http://www.dev411.com/slides/webappdesign.xul > > It would be great to hear what people thought about the slides as well.
Nice read. Lot's of thought provoking stuff which I'd love to implement. Sometimes it's a balance between how much a client is willing to pay versus how it *should* be done like you describe above and how long you've got to di it. Hmmm... Time for a redesign ;-) > > -- > John Wang > http://www.dev411.com/blog/ > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
