Re: [Gnumed-devel] NOT pretty XUL?!?

[Tim Churches]

Thilo Schuler wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> I have been trying to approach you with this. I would like to know 
> more about your XUL explorations and why you thought it's not pretty. 
> Maybe I have to reconsider the implementation tools.
>
> I am in SYD too, so we can either discuss it via email or I give you a 
> ring or even meet with you.
>
> Hope you didn't purposely ignore my other attemps and this is just 
> another annoyance... ;)

Thilo,

Go ahead and assess XUL and PyXPCOM yourself. Don't allow my comments to 
bias you. I only said it was not pretty, meaning not aesthetically 
pleasing. I didn't say that it was not useful or that building front 
ends with it to deploy as a extension to Firefox or Mozilla was not a 
good idea. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the comment relates 
primarily to XPCOM and its interface to XUL components, rather than to 
XUL itself - which I did not make entirely clear in my origibal comment. 
When using it through PyXPCOM, it results in very unPythonic code. Not 
elegant and pleasing to the eye. That doesn't mean it doesn't work and 
that applications can't be written in it. Goferit, mate.

Tim C

> Tim Churches wrote:
>
> > Thilo Schuler wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to try to build a small XUL front-end to GNUmed. I will 
> > > have to get a basic understanding of the back-end and will have to 
> > > use the business objects as an API. Plan to document my explorations 
> > > (little white paper or howtos) so I can share my experience with the 
> > > community.
> >
> >
> >
> > This would be very welcome. We looked at XUL (and driving it via 
> > PyXPCOM) and ended up wondering what the designers were thinking when 
> > they came up with XUL. Not pretty. But that doesn't mean it can't be 
> > made to work, or that it isn't potentially useful.
> >
> > Tim C
>
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