Hi
I would like to know if people actually have a concrete idea on how
you
would define a 'new' wizard? If in xml, what would it look like
I think the syntax of the wizard xml's is probabely ok.
I would like to see/create a real gui application (swing or better)
that can use the xml's as input
-good user interaction
-online/offline concept
-easy uploading/streaming to server
The hell is not in the wizards . it's in the browsers and the web
initialy the wizards should have run client side and we would not have
the mess we currenlty have(the problem was compatibility)
as an alternative to a "web" gui, there are a lot of xml based "xui's"
around nowadays, mozilla's XUL being a prominent one, and
XAML (for windows' longhorn .. ouch) coming up. I would
prefer such a xul much above a direct swing implementation.
for some examples of XULs, check
http://xul.sourceforge.net/counter.html
note Luxor, which is build on Swing.
(and why would it be easier than the old format)?
a lot of interface problems are easily solved by the richer
possiblities of such xui's, like treewidgets, rdf templating, etc,
as opposed to HTML ofcourse. It also can take some application
logic of the server and move it to the client's application,which
can sometimes improve the interaction feel ...
$2c,
*pike
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