[elm-discuss] Re: Moving on

2017-04-24 Thread Joe Andaverde
Duane, I'm curious what the roadblocks were in the 2 of 3 you didn't have success with? This could definitely help others when making their decision. Also, it may provide helpful feedback to more appropriately prioritize future elm platform development. Thanks! On Monday, April 24, 2017 at

[elm-discuss] Re: Using Elm with existing UI controls

2017-02-02 Thread Joe Andaverde
Elm maintainers: where would be the best place to document this use case? I'd hate for this to be lost in a sea of threads. On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 10:41:51 AM UTC-6, Joe Andaverde wrote: > > The DOM could still be invalidated and redrawn at any time by virtual-dom. > I haven'

[elm-discuss] Re: Using Elm with existing UI controls

2017-01-31 Thread Joe Andaverde
cation > to not unload any elements connected via ports and simply to hide them > instead? Would certainly prefer your lifecycle events idea but thinking > about near-term workarounds.. > > On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:27:17 PM UTC-5, Joe Andaverde wrote: >> >

[elm-discuss] Using Elm with existing UI controls

2017-01-28 Thread Joe Andaverde
Statement: Elm is difficult to adopt for some groups because they require UI controls that may be difficult or time-prohibitive to re-implement. Current Approach: Use ports to initialize controls by passing the id of a DOM element to use as the container. Problem: Using ports to wire UI

[elm-discuss] Ideas for Elm Conf (struggling to come up with any)

2016-06-27 Thread Joe Andaverde
With the simplification of Elm since 0.17 it seems like there are far less intermediate+ possible talks. I imagine the best talks will be about tooling and not so much about the using the language. What are some topics worth speaking about that are "beyond the basics"? -- You received this

Re: [elm-discuss] Re: virtual-dom hooks

2016-06-24 Thread Joe Andaverde
The rewrite of virtual-dom in 0.17 does not provide any mechanism for knowing when a dom element is created, re-rendered, or removed. Which would be essential for initializing a third party control. Even in the version used in 0.16 I'm not sure the entire life-cycle for a dom node was