On June 5, 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 05.06.2009, at 06:13, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > On June 4, 2009, Michael Rueger wrote:
> > > Igor Stasenko wrote:
> > > > I really thinking that what is good in css/html couple is the
> >
> > techique
> >
> > > > for dividing the actual markup and its visual appearance.
> > > > Maybe someday we could have similar stuff in morphic / other
> >
> > smalltalk
> >
> > > > framework.
> > >
> > > In Sophie we used XUL and CSS to build the UI :-)
> > > Using Tweak, not Morphic though. The basic principle shouldn't be to
> > > hard to apply to Morphic or other frameworks.
> > >
> > > Michael
> >
> > So part of Sophie is essentially XUL renderer, similar to Gecko?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "essentially". Gecko renders HTML, Sophie
> does not.

I should have asked "so there is a module in Sophie that can render XUL into 
Tweak UI" .. I guess answer to this narrower question is there is. Which makes 
Sophie one of the few XUL renderers in existence, apart from Gecko and few 
Java based, as far as I can tell. It sounds like the Sophie module also allows 
Tweak widgets rendering defined by CSS ... 

>
> The Sophie UI (dialogs etc.) is specified using XUL - it describes how
> big a dialog is, where to place which widgets, and how they should
> look. These attributes come from cascading style sheets (CSS) so they
> are properly inherited / overridden by sub-controls. But the actual
> widgets such styled are regular Tweak widgets (though style support
> was added). 

yes.. 

Thanks, Milan  


> You could use the same framework to style a Morphic UI.
>
> - Bert -