> What's a web widget?
Good question. My view is that it is an object that: 1. has a predefined default look and behavior 2. can respond to user events from any widget on the web page, if necessary 3. is modular 4. and can use svg to give it some pizaaaaz..... Examples are header, footer, columns, menu, buttons, text containers, forms, various parts of a shopping cart, tabbed folder.... Almost anything that you see on a webpage can be made and packaged as a widget. I plan to design a one-page website using these widgets (in effect, a web application like Mozilla's XUL). There is no reason to link to other pages within a site when you can just hide widgets and show widgets for each page. Fade-outs and fade-ins, etc., could be used as visual clues. Need to keep track of "state" rather than changing pages. Can use JSRS to communicate with the server and database. I believe that as broadband use increases web users will demand that a site provide more than just info.; I think that effective, interactive visual content will also become more and more important. dave --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jim Ley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "orchidsonline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am just getting into SVG and XML from a DHTML-PHP-MYSQL mentality > > and am excited about the creative possibilities. But is SVG ready to > > be used as a replacement for DHTML yet? > > No, SVG is not at all an appropriate replacement for DHTML, DHTML is the > dominant technology and much more appropriate than SVG for almost > everything - of course there's lots of things DHTML can't do, and this is > where you should be looking at SVG - mapping and charts are the obvious > choices. > > > 2. Any thoughts/suggests concerning coding web widgets using SVG? > > What's a web widget? > > Jim. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
