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RE: User interface programming XUL?

• To: 'Trevor Croll' <trevorcroll@f...>, Don Park <donpark@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: User interface programming XUL?
• From: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:44 -0700

Most of the time, it is advisable to separate intent from presentation. This
speaks poorly of things like <label text="Address" x="30" y="1"/> as seen in
GNUe Forms.

For the intent portion, a much better standard is XForms (though I'm
biased--I'm an editor)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

For presentation (even x,y stuff), CSS2 seems to work pretty well. My
employer has released a successful implementation of eforms using HTML forms
and CSS absolute positioning. The beauty of such an approach is that a
limited browser (such as a handheld) will just ignore the positioning bits
and show everything in reading order.
http://www.cardiff.com/liquidoffice/register_TE.asp

Thanks,

.micah

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Croll [mailto:trevorcroll@f...]
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 4:05 PM
To: Don Park; xml-dev@l...
Subject:  User interface programming XUL?



I have seen a little bit on Application user interface standards and tools
for creating user interfaces within applications.

Is there some sites where there is more details on application user
interfaces, todate I have seen only
XUL Tutorial
http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/
XPToolkit Architecture
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/aom/AOM.html

The GNUe Form Definition Language
http://gnue.org/docs/GNUeFormsTechRef/x303.html

Scalar vector graphics allows fixed position screen resolution (HTML is free
form)

 What I would like to know is whether there is a standard where the location
of the screen objects can be fixed X & Y is a window, and that standard is
the one which will likely become the recommendation.

Best regards and many thanks - Trevor Croll



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