Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

I've got a few new ideas in mind that we may be able to pull some of the
code from vcl into... See the below excerpt from the 'New Layout Concept -
Update' that I just posted:

*> I'm working on that, too.  From what I can see of the old graphical
layout *
*> utility that we use, there is no way for us to create this in an easy
fashion.  *
*> What I think we can do, however, is to replace the old vcl library with *
*> something new.  I'm looking at using XUL instead, but the problem so far*
*> that I'm running into is that XUL really prefers the backend code to be*
*> mostly javascript.  So what I'm thinking we may wish to do is to replace*
*> vcl with something that has the same API but that uses custom xml, svg,*
*> and css to describe the forms that we need it to make however this is*
*> going to be a lot of work as I don't really see any other F/OSS libraries
to*
*> pull from...  Any other suggestions would be really helpful!*

Yours Truly,
Scott R. Pledger



On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 08:25, Kohei Yoshida <kyoshida@novell.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:15 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote:
> > Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template?
> >  Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start...
>
> We don't have any concrete vision of what the VCL replacement should
> look like, but making UI definition files XML-based is surely a sane
> approach.  In fact, when we attempted to replace it at one point, we did
> use an XML-based UI definition format.  Some of these files are still
> around in the code base though we are on their way out.
>
> So, yeah, XML-based UI definition format is very likely.
>
> Kohei
>
>
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