On 22/09/2006, at 10:18 PM, Horst Herb wrote:
As I understand it the original Gnumed model as proposed by Horst 100 years ago called for 1) a rock solid medical database schema and engine 2) an API to interact with (and protect) that database 3) a simple method to allow developers to create customised GUI widgets calling those APIs 4) which would then allow anyone to create clients with a customised look, feel and functionality by arranging the widgets of their choice, in the GUI of their choice.(in a slightly similar way that you can customise your google home page <http://www.google.com/ig>) This has appeal because 'programmers' can do (1) and (2), 'scripters' can make and share (3) and then everyone can do (4) Ruby-On-Rails would appear to be one excellent option for (3), as it also allows (4)! (and, of course, anyone could also use wxPython or Cocoa or anything else they liked for (3), interacting with the same database) However, I think we'll be waiting for Web 3.0 till we get the GUI functionality of our current systems in a browser. Or, Horst, are you more optimistic than that? BTW Google Calendar, Writely and Basecamp (by ROR's David Heinemeier Hansson) are other excellent examples of AJAX functionality. Regards, Tony Lembke |
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