Re: Model-driven Views

2011-05-10 Thread Leigh L Klotz Jr
From: Rafael Weinsteinrafa...@google.com mailto:rafa...@google.com?Subject=Re%3A%20Model-driven%20ViewsIn-Reply-To=%253CBANLkTimZcXiO8U8xHg2Y6eT4igixkCiF7w%40mail.gmail.com%253EReferences=%253CBANLkTimZcXiO8U8xHg2Y6eT4igixkCiF7w%40mail.gmail.com%253E It sounds like the group wants to proceed by

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-05-06 Thread Rafael Weinstein
Thanks everyone for your consideration. It sounds like the group wants to proceed by looking first at missing primitives. Maciej is right that one of them is the ability to declare inert DOM structures, but my feeling is that it's probably best to start with the central problem: -There's no way

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-05-06 Thread Garrett Smith
On 5/6/11, Rafael Weinstein rafa...@google.com wrote: Thanks everyone for your consideration. It sounds like the group wants to proceed by looking first at missing primitives. Missing primitives? What do you mean? -- Garrett

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-05-04 Thread Leigh L Klotz Jr
Rafael, I am co-chair of the W3C Forms Working Group. As Charles McCathieNevile pointed out in this discussion: It probably makes sense to ask the Forms group as well, given that it doesn't require much squinting to get to the perspective where you're pretty much reinventing a wheel they've

Does WebApps want to do work in Model-driven Views area?

2011-05-03 Thread Arthur Barstow
.org/2010/webapps/charter/ [XG] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/about.html Original Message Subject:Re: Model-driven Views Resent-Date:Tue, 3 May 2011 01:08:53 + Resent-From:public-webapps@w3.org Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 18:05:17 -0700 From: ext Rafael

Re: Does WebApps want to do work in Model-driven Views area?

2011-05-03 Thread Olli Pettay
or whatwg, I think.) -Olli -Art Barstow [Charter] http://www.w3.org/2010/webapps/charter/ [XG] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/about.html Original Message Subject: Re: Model-driven Views Resent-Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 01:08:53 + Resent-From: public-webapps@w3.org Date

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-05-02 Thread Rafael Weinstein
Apologies. I feel like I have failed to properly contextualize this issue. Let me back up and see if I can't help create a different frame of reference. This email is already too long so I've avoided examples. Please let me know what isn't apparent and I'll explain further. 1) Imperative

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-05-02 Thread Garrett Smith
On 5/2/11, Rafael Weinstein rafa...@google.com wrote: Apologies. I feel like I have failed to properly contextualize this issue. Let me back up and see if I can't help create a different frame of reference. This email is already too long so I've avoided examples. Please let me know what isn't

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-05-01 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:35:53 +0200, Rafael Weinstein rafa...@google.com wrote: Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between View and Model in the browser, with needs of web applications being the primary motivator. Our ideas are

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-29 Thread Olli Pettay
On 04/29/2011 04:11 AM, Garrett Smith wrote: On 4/28/11, Olli Pettayolli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 04/28/2011 04:46 AM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: Would be good to know what are the use cases you had in mind. I'm never sure if I'm using the term use case correctly =-). Our primary

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-29 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:46 AM, Alex Russell wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Apr 28, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: I agree with much of this. However it's hard to judge without a bit more meat on it. Do you have any ideas for

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: What do you think? - Is this something you'd like to be implemented in the browsers, Yes. and if yes, why? What would be the reasons to not just use script libraries (like your prototype). FAQ item also coming for this.

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: What do you think? - Is this something you'd like to be implemented in the browsers, Yes.  and if yes, why? What would be the reasons to not just use script  

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 28, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: What do you think? - Is this something you'd like to be implemented in the browsers, Yes. and

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Olli Pettay
On 04/28/2011 12:02 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: What do you think? - Is this something you'd like to be implemented in the browsers, Yes. and if yes, why? What would be the reasons to not just use script libraries (like your

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Alex Russell
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. jackalm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 4/22/11 8:35 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Alex Russell
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Apr 28, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: What do you think? - Is this

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Olli Pettay
On 04/28/2011 04:46 AM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: Would be good to know what are the use cases you had in mind. I'm never sure if I'm using the term use case correctly =-). Our primary motivator is the needs of web applications, And what are those needs? It is hard to judge the proposal if

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-28 Thread Garrett Smith
On 4/28/11, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 04/28/2011 04:46 AM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: Would be good to know what are the use cases you had in mind. I'm never sure if I'm using the term use case correctly =-). Our primary motivator is the needs of web applications, And

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-27 Thread Olli Pettay
HI Rafael, few random comments, or mainly just random questions :) On 04/23/2011 03:35 AM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between View and Model in the browser, with needs of web applications being the

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-27 Thread Erik Arvidsson
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:33, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: Not sure why this had some relation with XBL. Unless you are planning to put the template based DOM nodes to anonymous DOM. The relation to XBL is that XBL has a template element and inside it you can bind attributes and

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-27 Thread Olli Pettay
On 04/27/2011 09:13 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:33, Olli Pettayolli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: Not sure why this had some relation with XBL. Unless you are planning to put the template based DOM nodes to anonymous DOM. The relation to XBL is that XBL has a template

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-27 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Olli Pettay olli.pet...@helsinki.fi wrote: On 04/27/2011 09:13 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote: 1. We wanttemplate  to be able to contain arbitrary content that is used as the content of the instances that are created from it. Now assume that the template element

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-27 Thread Rafael Weinstein
Hi Olli, Thanks very much for taking time to read digest our design. I'm going to use this thread to start a FAQ on our project site. Some of these questions have answers that deserve more detail than is wise to put in an email =-). On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Olli Pettay

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-26 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: On 4/22/11 8:35 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between View and Model in the browser, with needs of web applications being the

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-26 Thread Arthur Barstow
Hi Rafael, On Apr/22/2011 8:35 PM, ext Rafael Weinstein wrote: Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between View and Model in the browser, with needs of web applications being the primary motivator. Our ideas are implemented as an

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Raggett
The model-based UI effort is focused on UI design and making it easier to maintain, as well as adaptation to different contexts, and support for accessibility. As such authors wouldn't work with HTML5 directly, as this would be generated automatically from the models, guided by the author's

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-26 Thread Rafael Weinstein
Thank, Nathan. I hadn't known of Knockout, but it looks pretty great. Conceptually, its design is very similar to MDV. Notably, the two big items: -Observable JS object properties and Arrays. -DOM-based template production (although they work with JQuery templates which are string-based). The

Model-driven Views

2011-04-25 Thread Rafael Weinstein
Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between View and Model in the browser, with needs of web applications being the primary motivator. Our ideas are implemented as an experimental Javascript library: https://code.google.com/p/mdv/ and

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-25 Thread Nathan Kitchen
Have you heard of knockout.js? It's an MVVM pattern based on JQuery, if you're not aware of it you may be interested to see their approach. Official site: http://knockoutjs.com/ Recent MIX event: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/FRM08 Just FYI as it was related... On 23 April 2011

Re: Model-driven Views

2011-04-25 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 4/22/11 8:35 PM, Rafael Weinstein wrote: Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between View and Model in the browser, with needs of web applications being the primary motivator. Our ideas are implemented as an experimental Javascript