Fwd: Re: seaside and ui`s

> [hidden email] wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I`m working with Seaside for about a couple of weeks and I think    
>> it`s excellent. I`m wondering if there is an extension to the    
>> UIBuilder in order to build UIs for Seaside.
>> I have little idea of how UIBuilder works with specs so I inspect    
>> it and debug some particular cases of examples in order to    
>> understand it`s behaviour. After a few tests I realize that    
>> UIBuilder and Specs are mostly design for traditional Widgets which  
>>   understand
>>>> displayOn:. Does anybody question itself to do a refactoring to
>> UIBuilder and Spec implementation. It would be useful to decouple    
>> the abstractions of buttons, input fields, checks, etc from their    
>> implementations in a particular framework such as MVC, Seaside,    
>> Pollock. In this way we can reuse the uipainter, the application    
>> model, etc independently from the UI framework we are using, and    
>> migrating from a desktop application to a web application just free.
>> If there is some work on this I hope this mail would be forgotten.
>
>
> Hi Esteban,
>
> I don't think there already is a ui builder for Seaside. Moreover, in
> my opinion, UIBuilder or such tools can't be used with seaside because
> there is much more things you can do in VW you can't do with web
> applications. And in web applications, you can't say put this widget at
> 29@123 pixels and this one 2 pixels bottom. This can't work. Last but
> not least, forms are most of the time built automatically by
> composition ; not sure how it can be done with a mouse.
>
> However, if you have a solution, I would greatly appreciate to test it :-)
>
> Bye