Rui Carmo just posted a nice blog post on IUI and it's future http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/02/23/2218
Just as I was thinking he considers IUI dead and he's going for jQuery. Just my $0.02 Richard On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Stefan Henze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > Thank you all for your replies. I put together some sample code to > show you what I mean. > @Sean: I don't think a patch would work that easily since I took iUI > as an inspiration only. The Diff wouldn't find a single line that's > unchanged. > > OK, before you try the URL on the bottom please consider the > following: > - The sample ist just quickly assembled from a project that I can't > show here yet. So it's kind of content-free. > - I didn't include any AJAX or whatever asynchronoous stuff in there > yet as I didn't neet it until now. But that's one of the first things > to come. > - This sample doesn't use the skinning feature. I'll make one with > skinning later on. > - I hope you don't mind the purple arrow buttons - they are out of a > skin and will become blue iphone style some time... > - I did not use the smooth moving swipe animation as in iUI since it > appeared to slow for some complex content. This one is not that > beautiful but much faster in my opinion. > > This is the URL for the sample: > http://iphone.h1d.de/iwat/samples/simple/index.html > > Hoping for your comments... > > Cheers, > Stefan > > PS: This is the second time I post this. Didn't seem to get through > the first time... > > > On Feb 23, 12:02 pm, Sean Gilligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Stefan, > > > > Just read the root of this thread... > > > > Can you make a patch and attach it to an Issue? I'll download the patch > > and do a diff and let you know what I think. We can have a discussion > > on extensibility on the development list... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Sean > > > > Stefan Henze 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
