On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Greg Brown wrote:
True, and those features are essential when you are trying to
construct a complex GUI using HTML, because HTML isn't really a GUI
toolkit. However, Pivot is a GUI toolkit, so you don't need to build
so much by hand.
Hmmm... can't say I follow your argument against selectors
here---especially about the "you don't need to build so much by hand."
I just mean that CSS is your only option for "rendering" in HTML, so it
has to be super-sophisticated in order to support all of the things that
developers try to do with it. The same isn't true for Pivot (or Swing),
since we use Java2D for rendering.
Hey, I never said we had to support all the super-sophisticated features
of CSS for Pivot---just the helpful ones. I'm working through that right
now. It's just too early for me to suggest what would and what wouldn't
be helpful for Pivot. It will fall out of practice.
Cheers,
Michael
