The Aptana plugin is awesome! Checkout this video for a demonstration and tutorial:
http://www.rockstarapps.com/wordpress/?p=94#more-94 Great work! > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Buffone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: A couple of items > > It just seems a little like we are forcing best practices on > them. I am not sure if I care in the end I created a crappy > application from XAP's stand point just that my application > was created simply is awesome to the user. > > Plugin does the following: > > * Create a new "Default Web Project" with Apache XAP support. > * Create a new project for two samples "Login workflow" and > "XML data binding" in the "Samples" view. > * A set of snippets in the "Snippet" view for adding widgets, > containers and other XML snippets > * A documentation view that shows the Reference API for the > Apache XAP. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Gagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: A couple of items > > I agree that we should support the style attribute --- > however it really shouldn't be used for styling. Styling > should be driven by a stylesheet. The reason to use style > for display/positioning/state/etc > -- things specific to the component on the screen. I think > XAP handles these well since there are attributes for them > where there are not attributes for them in HTML. > > The thing to avoid is putting information about what the > component will look like in the UI markup -- that belongs in > a stylesheet, including things like validation failed. Makes > it device independent, etc. > > --- > What does the plugin for Aptana do? Place XAP JS into a project? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Buffone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 1:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: A couple of items > > > 1.) I think we need to support the style attribute in our > widgets. I am > finding my self gravitating to trying to style them this way. It is > probably a result of doing it that way for HTML > > 2.) I am working on a plugin for aptana javascript IDE so people can > easily create a XAP application. I think this will help promote the > project and make it easy to work with. > > Bob (Buffone) >
