[squeak-dev] [ANN] SeasideXUL

> Wow, all what needed is a way to embed XULRunner into Squeak and you
>  can do desktop development in Seaside!
>
>  Cheers
>  Philippe
>
>  2008/4/13, Pavel Krivanek <[hidden email]>:
>
> > Hi all,
>  >
>  >  I started the project named SeasideXUL. This package enables to
>  >  generate XUL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL) code in Seaside 2.9 so
>  >  now we can create applications with standard look&feel directly in
>  >  Smalltalk with the power of Seaside.
>  >
>  >  Pictures are worth more than thousand words:
>  >  http://comtalk.eu/public/pub/SeasideXUL/screenshots/
>  >
>  >  XUL can be displayed directly in FireFox or there's a project named
>  >  XULRunner that enables to run it as a standalone application (see
>  >  screenshots, the application then can use own shortcuts etc.) but
>  >  still in thin-client/server architecture. Standard HTML or SVG code
>  >  can be embedded in XUL page.
>  >
>  >  I had to created ajax-based call/answer mechanism with continuations
>  >  for SeasideXUL. The complete port of XUL Periodic Table
>  >  (http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul) is included as the
>  >  demonstration application. However lot of next things wait for
>  >  implementation (e.g. some alternative to forms) or need to be made
>  >  more robust and easily usable (whole ajax part).
>  >
>  >  Seaside 2.9 is quite hard to load and SeasideXUL doesn't reflect some
>  >  latest changes in this package (Seaside 2.9 is still under heavy
>  >  development) so if you want to try SeasideXUL on your own in this
>  >  stage of development, do not await a nice walk through a rosarium. It
>  >  was developed on this set of packages:
>  >
>  >  Scriptaculous-Components (Scriptaculous-Components-lr.41)
>  >  Scriptaculous-Core (Scriptaculous-Core-lr.18)
>  >  Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core (Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core-lr.1)
>  >  Scriptaculous-Tests (Scriptaculous-Tests-lr.21)
>  >  Seaside-Adapters-Core (Seaside-Adapters-Core-pmm.3)
>  >  Seaside-Core (Seaside-Core-lr.120)
>  >  Seaside-Development-Core (Seaside-Development-Core-lr.20)
>  >  Seaside-Examples (Seaside-Examples-pmm.1)
>  >  Seaside-Squeak-Adapters (Seaside-Squeak-Adapters-mu.7)
>  >  Seaside-Squeak-Core (Seaside-Squeak-Core-dkh.38)
>  >  Seaside-Squeak-Development (Seaside-Squeak-Development-pmm.10)
>  >  Seaside-Squeak-Kom (Seaside-Squeak-Kom-pmm.13)
>  >  Seaside-Tests (Seaside-Tests-dkh.102)
>  >  Seaside-Utils-Core (Seaside-Utils-Core-lr.7)
>  >
>  >  Scriptaculous dependency should be removed in next versions.
>  >
>  >  Mozilla seems to be pretty strong platform provider and future
>  >  versions of FireFox should be based directly on the XULRunner. I hope
>  >  that we did the important step to gain multi-platform and
>  >  multi-implementation user interface framework for Smalltalk.
>  >
>  >  Cheers,
>  >
>  > -- Pavel
>  >
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