Re: Best option for portable GUI?

From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Best option for portable GUI?
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:12:42 -0600
Date: 2003-01-18T07:12:42-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.4.1042895579.265.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric G. Miller" <felix@calico.local>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: January 18, 2003 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: Best option for portable GUI?

> In article <3E284969.85FF8394@easystreet.com>, achrist@easystreet.com wrote:
> > "Robert C. Leif" wrote:
> >> 
> >> This is now becoming feasible. The next portable GUI should employ XForms.
> >> For Windows this can be downloaded from http://www.formsplayer.com/
> > 
> > The site says that the client uses the web browser.  This is ok,
> > but it says for Windows use IE 6. 
> > 
> > What other browsers work with XForms?
> 
> XForms is still just a candidate standard.  However, my take is XForms
> is a a better HTML forms method, but not necessarily rich enough to
> specify a general GUI.  I could be wrong...
> 
XForms is not just for GUIs -- it's for UIs.  E.g., the UI could be aural
instead of visual, or it could be for touch-tome telephones as a UI device.
It's not ready for prime time, but it's an idea whose time has come.

It's main idea seems to be the separation of data, presentation and logic.

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