Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - HTML and CSS in HotCocoa

2008-11-22 Thread Joshua Ballanco
If you would like layout of elements with in HTML style, that's pretty much what Shoes (http://shoooes.net/) is. I had a discussion back in September of implementing Shoes on-top-of or along-side HotCocoa (http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2008-September/000508.html ), but th

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - HTML and CSS in HotCocoa

2008-11-21 Thread Rich Morin
At 12:52 -0900 11/21/08, elliottcable wrote: > This sounds like an idea with potential. > > Perhaps a new framework for creating "HTML" applications, that takes > the HTML and uses a WebView - but instead of actually ending up with > a WebView, the data is pulled out and passed onto a true Cocoa >

Re: [MacRuby-devel] PBI - HTML and CSS in HotCocoa

2008-11-21 Thread elliottcable
This sounds like an idea with potential. Perhaps a new framework for creating "HTML" applications, that takes the HTML and uses a WebView - but instead of actually ending up with a WebView, the data is pulled out and passed onto a true Cocoa interface, kinda thing? On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:

[MacRuby-devel] PBI - HTML and CSS in HotCocoa

2008-11-21 Thread Rich Morin
It's possible to use HotCocoa to lay out windows, but (AFAIK) the developer still has to do most of the layout, specifying co-ordinates, etc. Like lots of other Ruby developers, I'm comfortable with HTML and CSS layout. So, I wonder how hard it would be to convince WebApp (for example) to accept