[Seaside] [ANN] SeasideXUL

[Pavel Krivanek]

Hi Sebastian,

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sebastian Sastre <ssastre at seaswork.com> wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
>         is good to have more options. Do you want to point articles to read
>  about the XUL trends? which big players are behind it, etc?

I tried to find some some documents with XUL long-term vision but I
wasn't successful. Its development is closely bound to Firefox so it's
necessary to observe its development. See
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_3_for_developers#For_XUL_and_extension_developers.
No other big player than Mozilla Foundation was adopting XUL as its
own although some as IBM are using it. The situation should be more
clean when XUL will be more independent.

> I think todays we
>  are seeing a big push among vendors and the biggest player of all times the open
>  source community. Today is harder to ponder the most promising trends. So much
>  to do, so much to learn, so short time
>

The alternative technologies for XUL today are XAML by Microsoft and
Air by Adobe. Here only the Mozilla's solution has real interest in
expanding to other platforms, is using open-source technologies and
has longest deployment history.

Cheers,
-- Pavel

>         thanks,
>
>  Sebastian Sastre
>
>
>
>  > -----Mensaje original-----
>  > De: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>  > [mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En nombre
>  > de Pavel Krivanek
>  > Enviado el: Lunes, 14 de Abril de 2008 09:12
>  > Para: Seaside - general discussion
>  > Asunto: Re: [Seaside] [ANN] SeasideXUL
>
>
> >
>  > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Holger Kleinsorgen
>  > <kleinsor at smallish.org> wrote:
>  > > Pavel Krivanek schrieb:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > > Hi all,
>  > > >
>  > > > I started the project named SeasideXUL. This package enables to
>  > > > generate XUL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL) code in
>  > Seaside 2.9 so
>  > > > now we can create applications with standard look&feel directly in
>  > > > Smalltalk with the power of Seaside.
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > >  Very cool!
>  > >
>  > >  Would a 2.8 port be technically possible, or is Seaside
>  > 2.9 required?
>  >
>  > I tried to back-port  it (version SeasideXUL-pk.48.mcz) and SeasideXUL
>  > seems to work - even the call/answer mechanism. I've chosen the
>  > version 2.9 in the beginning because I didn't know how deep changes
>  > will I have to do in Seaside and the development version seemed to be
>  > better starting point. Fortunately it was easier than I expected and
>  > no changes directly in the Seaside core were necessary. Funny, because
>  > initially I expected that the most reasonable way will be the start
>  > with a new framework ;-). Btw. this project started on the 3th of
>  > April 2008 so it's real newborn.
>  >
>  > So now the development will continue on Seaside 2.8.
>  >
>  > enjoy...
>  >
>  > -- Pavel
>  >
>  > >
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