Wouldn't mind to have a look! at your version I've been hacking iui
myself to get some things done the way I wanted it to be.

Maybe create a branch or a new Google project?

It doesn't look like iui is currently being developed any further...

Richard

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Peter Blazejewicz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  hi Stefan,
>
>  I think original idea of iUI was to be small, simple and fast way to
>  built UI that is similiar to native apps even by not experienced
>  users,
>  so one can either hardcode all those lists, setting panel and serach
>  form + detail page or output them from web server and that's
>  everything required to put content on web,
>  Simple subclassing is possible (as in Digg sample) where new design/
>  element change in html code should be reflected with custom .CSS added
>  which modify default iui.css for given, unique "screen",
>  More experienced people can use iUI as base (proof of concept) for
>  their custom solution without having to read/check Apple iPhone specs
>  on ADN network,
>
>  regards,
>  Peter
>
>
>
>  On Feb 22, 7:53 pm, Stefan Henze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > Hi there,
>  >
>  > I took a deeper look into iui recently and found for myself that it's
>  > not very structured into components nor extendible. For example if I
>  > need additional widgets I would have to either hack iui or write some
>  > code that's already included in iui. To customize the appearance of an
>  > application I would have to change the iui css or at least have to
>  > know what rules to define to override the default css style. Please
>  > don't get me wrong. I think iui is a great toolkit for the iphone and
>  > i really appreciate your work!
>  >
>  > Nevertheless, I did some major refactoring to overcome these two
>  > issues for a tiny (internal) project. Are there any thoughts among the
>  > iui team to work on those issues? I'd like to make my changes open
>  > source. If you take a look at the code, it differs extremely from iui
>  > so it would be hard to put it into iui if the iui team doesn't want to
>  > go into a simmilar direction anyway.
>  >
>  > I'll upload some code soon. Until then, are there any opinions from
>  > the iui developers concerning these issues? Are there any opinions
>  > from users? Is it better to have one iui that's all the best or should
>  > we have two of them competing and forcing each one to become better
>  > than the other one?
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Stefan
>  >
>

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