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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:16:14 -0500
From: Vadim Gritsenko <vadim@reverycodes.com>
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Subject: Re: [Proposal] Web based GUI development environment for Cocoon
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Corin Moss wrote:

>Hiya,
> 
>This does indeed sound like a very powerful tool.  Can I urge anyone who might be interested in pursuing this to take a look at XUL (part of the Mozilla project.)  XUL would make complex data display infinately easier (built in tree views, RDF driven templting - every rich widget you could imagine.)  I know it's not a technology used within the cocoon core, but it would make a lot of the development a lot less painful.  The sort of information you're going to render needs (IMHO) a fairly rich GUI interface - something which becomes unmanageble very quickly with HTML / Javascript.  XUL provides a toolkit to make such things really easy to develop.
> 
>The project I've been heading for the last few months makes extensive use of RDF driven XUL (all coming out of cocoon of course ;)  I'd be happy to evangilise directly if anyone is interested in learning more about XUL + cocoon :)
>

If you want to evangelize... The best way to evangelize is to show some 
code :-)
Can you implement something on XUL which can be included as part of 
Cocoon examples? Even adding simplest "Hello XUL" to the samples will be 
step forward, and it would be good to see some reach GUI example as well.

Another place where your help would be appreciated is to develop XUL 
view for the CForms.

Vadim