[TriZPUG] Web UI toolkits

[Joseph Tate]

That does look cool.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Stephen Ball <sdball at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't had a chance to use it, but http://sproutcore.com/ looks
> impressive.
> -- Stephen
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Paul McLanahan <pmclanahan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't done much with it, but I hear Dojo[0] is quite good at most of
>> that.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> [0] http://www.dojotoolkit.org/
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I've got a RESTful web service that I want to build a web client UI
>> > for, but either I'm blind, don't know what to search for, or don't see
>> > anything I like.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have a favorite front end only toolkit?  How do you use
>> > it?  Best primer/tutorial links?
>> >
>> > Here's what I consider essential for such a toolkit:
>> >
>> > stackable windowing type elements (dialogs (modal and non modal),
>> > tabs, wizards, toolbars, etc.)
>> > back/forward button handling/bookmarking
>> > easy breadcrumbs
>> > programmatic view switching (for use with application navigation and
>> > bookmarking)
>> > local data caching
>> > Event handling:
>> >  * standard click, mouse, load events
>> >  * data cache invalidation, redraw
>> >  * arbitrary events
>> > keyboard shortcuts
>> > extensible data serialization
>> > accessibility, localization and internationalization
>> > A rich array of widgets
>> >
>> > I bet there's more that I'm not thinking about right now.
>> >
>> > I use jQuery pretty extensively, and know that there are plugins that
>> > can do much of this stuff, but I'd still consider it a library rather
>> > than a toolkit.  I don't think YUI has all of these things.  I've
>> > built rich client UIs using MFC, Java AWT and Swing and others, so
>> > that's what I'm used to.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Joseph Tate
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