Hi. My thoughts on this:
First, I'd personally be curious about what tools people use for qooxdoo development right now, in absence of a proper IDE, and of their working habits - what they use more: the inspector, the source build, how they integrate running scripts with their "IDEs" etc. Second, IMO building a generic application framework integrated into an IDE-like something based on qooxdoo should start by asking people what they do with qooxdoo. Judging by the apps listed in the real-life examples section, I'd say the variability in usage scenario, backend systems and so on is quite high. Which should make the building of a generic "IDE" quite difficult. Third, I chose qooxdoo for one reason in particular: developing web apps with server-side frameworks is really really cumbersome, since most server-side frameworks, Java, .Net, Ruby, Python or anything else alike, have become bloatware (I know of one particular exception - apache wicket, which provides really nice ajax-based features, but also includes graceful degradation to non-ajax functionality - unfortunately not usable in .Net environments). With qooxdoo, all you need is a decent browser, and can limit server-side development to developing a few web services to communicate with the client. A framework based on qooxdoo which abstracts the server and binds the UI to data is theoretically a nice idea, but IMO not as nice once you start building something a la hibernate to make the data binding possible - you end up with a similar elephant behind the curtains. Fourth, I agree that qooxdoo could really use some new, updated themes, which should be part of the release. However, my (very short) experience with qooxdoo says that this would be more or less just marketing, since customers always want _their_ themes, even if they look like crap. Nevertheless, marketing is important. br, flj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
