P Floding;174588 Wrote: > I'm not familiar with Moose, but I would have thought that today's > browsers would have enough scriptability etc to allow a pretty slick > user interface? Perhaps I'm wrong.. I haven't looked into web > programming for a long time. (It was sort of in it's infancy when I > last time worried about such things.)
IMO, yes. I tried to get the ball rolling with adding loads of Web 2.0/AJAX features into Nokia770/Touch skins. If the Slim UI were to follow this direction, the end goal would be a stateful web application that gave the user a high level of responsiveness (a proof-of-concept would be the player controls on the 'now playing' page of either Nokia770 or Touch). Classically in browsers, real-time user experience has sucked because you end up serving dynamic content through full page refreshes. AJAX aims to solve that in two ways: by immediately returning control of the page to the user after a click, and by refreshing individual elements on a page rather than requiring full page refreshes. Nokia770 and Touch do that partially right now, but navigating between major elements of the UI (home, playlist, now playing, search) is still done via classic URL hyperlinking, which feels clumsy in this type of app. (queue someone complaining about how the underlying webserver isn't fast enough and AJAX won't do anything to help that) (queue someone saying how the ONLY way to build a useful UI is with a dedicated GUI app written for a specific OS) (sigh) When I dove into the Nokia770/Touch stuff, I think I was kind of hoping that it would gain enough attention that others would take the AJAX ball and roll further with it. It gained lots of attention, but I'm not seeing anyone else belly up to the bar. Who knows, I may still do it myself. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
