On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 04:35  AM, Stephen Pair wrote:

> Actually, it would be interesting to adopt an approach very similar to
> Morphic for constructing web widgets (I'm thinking mostly in terms of
> the compositional patterns found in Morphic...specifically how morphs
> have a list of submorphs that are iterated when drawing).  If you also
> enable the web widgets to render themselves as morphs, then you could
> use Morphic to assemple your web GUIs...I've also thought that you 
> could
> use some of the dynamic features of the web browsers and build a web UI
> editor in the web browser itself (but I think it would be easier and
> better to do it in Morphic).
>

Yeah - but the tricky bit is in matching the html layout model - which 
has a certain kind of flow that can be "channeled" into shapes via 
things like tables and lists.  Its not at all like a canvas - more like 
a stream.  In most of the visual web design tools I've seen, they 
present the user with a canvas and then try to emulate it using lots 
and lots of nested tables.  This tends to produce pages that render 
really slowly.

I'm not too knowledgeable about morphic (wish I knew more) but I didn't 
see anything that acted like a flow/html layout kind of thing.

Maybe someone can enlighten me on an appropriate container that will 
layout out things like an html page?