As of WebObjects 5.3, WebObjects Builder uses Webkit for rendering.
If you want a quick way to confirm this, make a new WOComponent.
Open a browser to a webpage & view source. Copy the source to the
clipboard. In WOBuilder, look at the source view. Select all & then
paste. You should now have the source from the page you selected.
Look at the preview & you'll see it renders exactly like Safari. In
a real component any static elements would render correctly, but it
sounds like what you want is a means to see a representation of the
dynamic elements. Since there isn't any actual data from those
elements, in preview it simply shows the element name. Since there
isn't any data there, it has nothing to render with CSS.
In theory, out of the box elements could have dummy placeholders used
for preview. But, since you can make your own elements, WOBuilder
would have no way to know what placeholder data would be appropriate
for those elements.
On Feb 4, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Andre wrote:
On 平成 18/02/04, at 8:52, Guido Neitzer wrote:
On 04.02.2006, at 8:17 Uhr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any chance that Webobject Buider would use Webkit so we
can have a "true" preview with all the CSS formating etc.?
I have never seen a WebObjects application more complex than a
"Hello, WOrld", where this could display ANYTHING useful.
Well, just the ability to have some idea what the page would look
like would be nice, after all there is a preview, and it shouldn't
be too hard to accomplish I would think....
All my applications have lots of conditionals, switch components,
database content, dynamic CSS creation or loading based on runtime
information and so on.
Yes, I understand. I guess thats why they have 3 basic views, code,
layout and preview.... I just wish preview actually previewed
correctly.
It would be much more helpful, when WebObjects could produce valid
xhtml instead of fiddling around with the new GUI tools (they are
only good, because they show, that someone at Apple has some
interest in WO).
Yes, I agree, this is something major, I don't like at all.
Since WO is "free" now I wish they could make the dev tools at
least open sourced. There's a ton of stuff I would love to get down
on if I could....
cug
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