About the current discussion on OO, JS, OOJS and the confusion on what they are:
OO is the model.
OOM is the method.
OOP is the technique.
Therefor JS is a tool of the prottyping OO technique. It's unnecessary to create a
more classbased structure of what is essentially a merge of prototyping and
class-inheritance (ie DynAPI). It's merely a question of approach wheter to use
prototyping - which is more towards experimental development - or class inheritance.
the only real different is wheter to allow for more unconditional extensability that
is the default of javascript and which DynAPI is mostly today VS a more conditional
class inheriting technique.
Personally I vote for the previous and I think most others who are more designers at
heart prefer it to remain so. The only reason to make DynAPI more class inheriting
would be to attract more OOP developers (who generally are more used to
class-inheritencing tools), which of course would be great for development, but
distracts more from those who need the API more - the designers. Consider the
folloowing...
Developers don't need a new language as much as designer does. There's enough
class-inheriting OOP tools around for developers. I also think Microsoft is moving out
of range for designers with their new .NET structure which the new ASP+ currently in
beta is part of. Is DynAPI OO (or next gen) to compete with .NET? I vote for keeping
DynAPI structure developing as it is and remain a real API, not a programming
semi-language!
My plead is to focusing on targetting DynAPI for designers. A OO DynAPI might instead
be bringing design enhancement for programmers to comprehand. In other words: keep it
separated and focus more on different users, but of course all kind of exchange of
knowledge is a good thing - so also keep a symbiotic relationship between the two (and
maybe designers and developers will come to understand eachothers expertise areas
more).
Henrik Våglin [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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