Im not really that sure why you think AIR might be ok in a couple of years... its perfectly good right now and will do nothing but improve! The same is true for all UI technologies.
Lift puts no prescription on what you must or must not use - you are free to use anything you want, in any way you want. Yes, a lot of people use JQuery, other use the flash / air platform, others use desktop environments like Cocoa... the point is there is no real answer to a "full stack RIA" because each enterprise project usually requires something different so you cant put a ring around certain techs and say "these full fill all enterprise needs for creating RIA's" - it just doesn't work like that IMO. Cheers, Tim On Aug 8, 1:37 am, ivo <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, it has to have a good event handling model, it needs all the > essential widgets to be able to create enterprise ready applications > (sortable and filterable tables, trees, etc.), and it would be nice to > include a good data source model for the widgets. > > What I'm talking about is something in the lines of GWT, or SmartGWT > (http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/) or GWT-Ext > (http://www.gwt-ext.com/demo/). > > I think in a couple of years one could also build enterprise UIs with > JavaFX or Flex / Adobe Air. > > I'm not that familiar with JQuery, and maybe it provides an UI > framework that can also turn out to be valid option. Right now I don't > see it: > - It does not have that many widgets > - I suppose one still has to worry about the html page flows (as > opposed to GWT where one can completely ignore the actual existence of > web pages, and one can really feel just like implementing a desktop > application) and finally > - I don't see an integration with a data source model (but this can be > pure ignorance from my part) > > I know this is not the JQuery list :-) but that David's quotation > aroused my curiosity about the Bespin + Lift project. In another > occasion, David also said "I'm just not a fan of the GWT model". I > wander what he meant... > > Anyway this is just a starting point for me, I don't have any fixed > ideas. Please comment :-) > > On Aug 7, 9:27 pm, "marius d." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What do you mean by UI framework here? Lift is pretty neatly > > integrated with JQuery, or you can use YUI or virtually any UI > > framework. > > > So what are your expectations from a UI framework? > > > Br's, > > Marius > > > On Aug 7, 10:55 pm, ivo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to start learning about promising technologies for building > > > full stack RIAs. It doesn't need to be something very powerful today, > > > but something that I can seriously consider for building commercial > > > applications in 1 or 2 years from now. > > > > Let me divide what I mean by "full stack" into 3 parts: (1) Data > > > backend, (2) Web framework and (3) UI framework. > > > > I was wondering if Lift + Goat Rodeo could be it, but I still think > > > that the UI framework is still missing. Quoting a post from David that > > > I found around the web: "The Bespin folks are working on a GUI builder > > > called Thunderclap. Dion and I want to make it so that building GUI > > > apps with Bespin and Lift is as simple as wiring up applications in OS > > > X's Interface Builder." Do you have any other news about this project > > > (or know where to look at)? > > > > Please share your thoughts... > > > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
