[Seaside] odds and ends

Ramon Leon rleon at insario.com
Wed Jun 29 18:52:45 CEST 2005


> What's the answer to "Why do we want to use JavaScript for that?" ?
> Sure, you can make your web app look more like a desktop app. 
> But is that desirable? I certainly don't want people to come 
> to *expect* e.g. 
> drag&drop on webpages.
> 
> rado

I do, and I'd bet many others do to.  Web apps don't get the credit they
deserve because they're thought of too much as web pages and too little
as real applications.  Why shouldn't a web app be more like Photoshop
and let you doc stuff where you like?  Why shouldn't web forms be laid
out by the developer at run time with drag and drop while in design
mode?  It's trivial to use JavaScript and the DOM to generate the
necessary CSS to store a pages layout, why should CSS be written by hand
when it isn't necessary?  

I hate the name Ajax, but the techniques have been used for years and
still aren't used enough.  Seaside isn't for making web pages... other
frameworks do that much better, seaside is for web applications, and it
does that better than the rest, IMHO, and "full" Ajax support should be
built in as soon as possible.


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