Re: [Gnumed-devel] drugref status

[Thilo Schuler]

So what I wanted to say, yes the XUL architecture bases on JavaScript 
(It is actually a mix of XUL, JavaScript, CSS, RDF, XBL,..). But it 
seems the web seems generally going that way.

And after all if one is aware of its characteristics (loose typing, no 
inheritance,...which are not only a disadvantage) it can be used very 
well (including user defined objects). A debugger like "venkman" helps a 
great deal.
But how am I to say that. I haven't programmed to much (only a little 
Delphi, SQL, and HTML) and I try to keep it as minimal as possible. But 
maybe that is why I appreciate that new movement towards UIs based on 
simple XML markup. I am not sure whether XUL will be still around in 
three years (depends whether the movement finally gains momentum 
together with mozilla firefox). But I believe some kind of XML-based 
rich-client markup will be the next generation of the web.

Thilo

Ian Haywood wrote:
> Thilo Schuler wrote:
>
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > thanks but take a look at the role model application (MAB at 
> > http://www.faser.net/mab with Firefox) 
>
> This is cool. Thilo, do you know how to do something in XUL like Google 
> Suggest
> (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en) I find it hard to believe 
> there isn't a way,
> in fact, wait a sec, I'm using that functionality right now in 
> Thunderbird ;-) so there must be a way
>
> This is the equivalent of what we call the phrasewheel in gnumed-wxpython.
> This would make it very tempting for a GUI
> The problem is you need to write it in javascript. (ugh)
>
> Ian
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