[Seaside] Starting out

[stephane ducasse]

Hi Juan

do you have web site showing SmallFaces running?

Stef
On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Burella Juan M. wrote:

> Michael,
>   We published a web widget toolkit which include basic controls  
> such as buttons, textfields, listboxes and others, called  
> SmallFaces. Currently we have a SFTable control and we are working  
> in a DataGrid implementation. You can find some documentation on  
> installing and using in the Squeak swiki : http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6088
>
> Cheers
>
> Juan M.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Michael Atkisson <michael_atkisson at comcast.net 
> > wrote:
> Imagine you are a business programmer, although you have heard of this
> exciting new environment called Seaside.
>
> You would like to create forms that operate like the ones you do at  
> work
> such as in Oracle Forms.  On further investigation, perhaps you manage
> to make it through the tutorials. But when you go to do something  
> real,
> behold you discover that some of the most basic components such
> displaying a datagrid from rows in a table are missing.  Something  
> that
> you probablydo on at least 50% of your forms in Oracle
>
> Next you read the mailing list to see if anyone has a solution to the
> problem. You discover that some people are decidely against putting
> anything like that in the core because of their purist inclinations.
> Others are simply say to go learn one of the javascript libraries
> and do it that way. This is also a dilema as you don't know which one
> would be good and this stuff isn't all that understandable to you.
>
> You don't know much about html, javascript, css, ajax, etc. and you
> probably don't want to spend a year figuring it all out.
> All you want to do is solve problems like the ones you have at work in
> as straightforward a way as possible.
>
> How much further do you think that person is likely to go?
>
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