On 01/30/2012 11:14 AM, Stefan Andersson wrote:
We have looked at extjs designer now and the diagrammer too. Amazing
achievement by Sencha. Far ahead of qooxdoo in fast application
development, usability and user friendliness.
It is like comparing DataFlex, with the most useful OO concept, with
other competing technologies in the 80'ies. Who lost? DataFlex of
course. It didn't make any difference that they had the absolutely
best OO concept and followed OMG on all items and was first to
implement it.
Tell me one system from the 80ies that survived, let alone because of a
GUI designer :-).
Instead development speed, usability and user friendliness won the
framework war.
We have almost the same situation to face with qooxdoo today.
How is qooxdoo core team going to meet this challenge? Time is short!
The development of a designer and a graphics/diagrammer package seems
to be essential to still stay in the game. DataFlex guys denied this
and were digging deep in the source like they did in the 70'ies, but
now we know they lost and DataFlex is only managing old systems
nowadays...and then it will totally disappear.
What is your opinion?
I personally think that the approach of the JsQt contribution [1] is the
most promising. It utilizes QtDesigner, an industrial-strenght GUI
designer of the Qt project, to do the design work, and then transforms
QtDesigner's output into a qooxodo app. If I were to invest effort, I
would invest it in this project.
T.
[1] http://qooxdoo.org/contrib/project#jsqt
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