Hi, Am Montag, den 02.01.2006, 13:31 -0700 schrieb L505: > [...] > I actually agree with fast prototyping, such as visual development sometimes > - but > HTML isn't capable enough and not suited for the pixel based form style > development.
It is not suited for that by design, yes. It isn't capable for pixel-based *. "enough" would imply that it was supposed to be. It wasn't and won't. Times where I cared about skins and whatnot are over, I want information. Information is text. > > If a future language is developed for the web to load up pixel based > documents, I'll Like flash. That I hate :) > change my thinking and will look into tools that do that (such as Delphi > clones like > turbophp/intraweb). > I've written about something called a "component based web > browser" in the future, where instead of loading a document a browser, will > load an > application from a server. This is called "X11" and alive and kicking for uncountable years, working on virtually every graphics capable operating system. Sun also made a more lightweight version that actually sent the window layout and events over the network, I forgot what it was called... NeWS or something... oh yeah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS > The main problem with using things like javascript/java > applets is that sometimes they don't work - some people have issues with them > on > certain web browsers. So I always end up saying to myself "well, best I > design this > using HTML and CGI, without javascript at all, because then I'm guaranteed > for it to > work on my visitors computer". It is true that current browsers are a mess. However, the browsers are not frozen in time and day by day they get better. Just look how much better they already are (think Netscape 4/IE3 then via Opera 8/Firefox 1 now)... so don't give up > > I will use tools like turbophp/intraweb style in the future, if there was a > better > pixel language under the hood (i.e. not html). But until then, HTML restricts > these Note that "the trend"(i hate that word)...no..forget it Note that I myself can't stand browsing the internet on a full blown noisy computer at some desk when I could do it equally well on a PDA in the green, under the sun (well, not in winter). So the pixel-based stuff is a dead end. (or using text-to-speech when I'm too tired to look at screens any longer, or having a search service index it so that I can filter the information, or......) > tools severely. The tools are good ideas, but it is HTML that ruins their > parade. I'm Well, using HTML to do stuff it was explicitly designed to avoid isn't really a good idea ;) > not saying in the future there will be no HTML, > just that there should be some pixel > based alternative in the future, in order for these tools to work with full > control. Probably not. You cannot have "full control" and "pixel language" on all devices capable of browsing the web. cheers, Danny _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
