Herman
Mismatch between HTML and classic apps -
AFAIK the back button *by design/standard* is meant to show you the
state of the resource as you saw it
this is a complete mismatch with what is required by a
data-centric/input app where the data on the page will be stale
so we have to fudge it to try and get data centric apps to work
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Well what more can ISC do to develop CSP - HTML is a very simple
concept and I think they have gone as far as they can (apart from
tinkering and licensing !!) - it's the limitation of HTML
any big change would be to change the architecture from streaming the
output to constructing a structure, transforming and then streaming
**see below**
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FLASH & XML data - well yes but it's all geared to timelines etc and I
find the interface confusing - though I do know of people that are
doing data centric stuff via Flash
SVG - yes would be good in 1.2 but there is no sign of anybody
implementing this anytime soon as far as I can see - and data input is
a nono in 1.1 :{
XFORMS - now that's the way to go
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but the great beauty of my proxy class structure is that it will still
be needed - all I need to do is redesign the rendering to do
xFORMS/SVG etc rather than HTML inputs !:}
There is at least one plug-in XFORMS reader out now - have you played
with it yet?
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**comment on HTML**
With my stuff I find developing rich datacentric/input apps really
cool - it's like the old VT100 days but with point n click - I have
complete control over the client UI.
Have done thick clients with Delphi (and I suppose this comment
applies to .NET et al) and find the extra layer a great burden
What I need/want is a "well defined" client that I can control from
the server - SVG/XForms/HTML all fall into this category
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>I can see CSP disappearing in a few years because of it's propriety nature
>but then ISC has to come with support for XForms in some form.
I disagree - you have to distinguish between CSP (tag based
development) and the widgets (csp:bind etc). Tag based development
must be here to stay - as far as the csp:bind technology goes - well -
no comment !:}
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BTW
whats RDF??
Peter
