Ted Leung on the air : Javascript GUI builder

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Wed, 06 Jul 2005

I was cleaning up some of my unread tabs in NetNewsWire and I finally got around to watching Jon Udell's screencast demonstrating a GUI toolkit and GUI builder for Javascript based browser applications. This is the sort of thing that I thought needed to happen in order for "AJAX" applications to really take off. I just didn't think it would happen this quickly. I was pretty impressed by what I saw in the screencast. I hope that some of the folks working on open source toolkits have seen this.

[22:53] | [computers/internet] | # | TB | F | G | 6 Comments |

Also quite interesting in this context seems to be the JavaScript library at http://script.aculo.us which reminds me a bit of the Web Modeling language (www.webml.org) and may be used with RubyOnRails (but there are of course also native XML dbs such as www.exist-db.org; for a recent discussion on RoR see www.theocacao.com). For a DOMParse written in js see a recent post at www.web-graphics.com.
Posted by Jo at Thu Jul 7 03:40:09 2005

Hat tip to my friend Ted Leung for pointing me to Jon Udell's screencast of the TIBCO GUI builder for JavaScript: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/tibco.html Things I'd want from an AJAX toolkit include: browser independence, a high-level obje...
Posted by Trackback from Gung Ho For UNIX at Thu Jul 7 11:03:52 2005

This toolkit offers a lot of the widget functionality I saw in the demo..

http://qooxdoo.sourceforge.net

Only just found this toolkit, but I'm very impressed with the demo. And it's cross browser already.

All we need now is the gui builder 8)
Posted by Mark Andrews at Wed Jul 13 05:05:53 2005

An interesting RoR alternative is www.nitrohq.com !
Posted by Jo at Tue Jul 26 03:52:07 2005

This wasnt developed as quick as you may think - Tibco aquired General Interface, which was previously known as Versalent, and this product has been in development since at lest 2001
<a href="http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=6782AA6B-206A-4BDF-BC24-13452F6872DE&type=CW%20News">http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=6782AA6B-206A-4BDF-BC24-13452F6872DE&type=CW%20News</a>
Posted by drfish at Mon Aug 8 12:52:49 2005

drfish,

Thanks for the pointer. Alex Russell filled me in on a bit of the history at OSCON.
Posted by Ted Leung at Tue Aug 9 00:40:51 2005

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