Re: [Perl-widget-developer] Team-building question of the day

[James G S. <JG...@TA...>]

Stephen Adkins <ste...@of...> wrote:
>1. Perl Widget Library is a library of useful HTML user interface widgets, 
>and a framework for extending them and developing your own. 

To a large degree, yes.  I think it can be used for more than 
just HTML output when building a page.  Session management comes 
to mind.

>2. The library is designed conceptually to support non-HTML widgets too, 
>such as WML, Gtk/X, Curses, but we'll only get to those if it doesn't 
>compromise our ability to make HTML widgets. 

I don't see why it can't be used to build a forms-based 
application in any user-interface system.  That's basically what 
a browser is without client-side scripting.

We just need to be careful that we write the library in such a 
way that only initialization needs to be changed when moving to a 
different rendering environment (or try for that as much as 
possible).  This allows for complex widgets to be build on 
simpler ones with only the simpler ones needing to be eventually 
aware of the details of the rendering.
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