[Ur] A few questions

[nitralime]

Thanks a lot for your feedback!
I begin now to get my hands dirty:-)

Regards
Nik

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at impredicative.com>wrote:

> nitralime wrote:
>
>  On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at impredicative.com<mailto:
>> adamc at impredicative.com>> wrote:
>>
>>        As you surely know, there are also some growing tendencies
>>        towards SPI (Single Page Interface) and RIA (Rich Internet
>>        Application).
>>        For this sort of applications one needs a solid GUI toolkit.
>>        As far as I know there are two different approches for
>>        providing GUI:
>>           1) using a prebuilt JavaScript GUI toolkit wrapped in some APIs
>>               which in ideal case integrate seamlessly into the core
>>        framework
>>           2) [[a subset of the framework's core language) -->
>>        JavaScript]] compiler
>>               which provides the GUI toolkit
>>
>>        The first alternative can be "easily" realized by taking some
>>        web framework and
>>        a decent JavaScript GUI toolkit like TIBCO General Interface,
>>        Javeline, dhtmlx,
>>        Qooxdoo, (to some extent flapjax) etc. and writing some glue
>>        codes!
>>
>>        The second approach is more fundamental. To the best of my
>>        knowledge
>>        HOP and Links are the only frameworks that implement it properly.
>>
>>
>>    I've tried to design the demos and manual to make it clear that
>>    both options are possible in Ur/Web.  The compiler generates
>>    JavaScript for client-side code, and the FFI makes it possible to
>>    wrap JavaScript libraries.
>>
>> Can you please give me a short example (but not a trivial one a la
>> 'alert("Hello World!")')
>> for each of these two alternatives?
>>
>
> The latter part of the main demo is all examples of GUIs implemented in
> Ur/Web and compiled to JavaScript.  I have no examples presently of wrapped
> JavaScript GUI libraries.
>
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