Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] CSS and declarative UI round up

[Alex Fitzpatrick <agfitzp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

While flexibility built into the framework
is a good thing, I am expecting that this effort will not undermine the
existing platform look & feel that SWT/JFace default to or break backwards
compatibility.

We have a lot of products built on this
platform, backwards compatibility is effectively mandatory.

(I also spent spent three years doing
AJAX before I moved into RCP, I'd rather slit my wrists than try to lay
out UI with CSS)

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Alex Fitzpatrick
agfitzp@xxxxxxxxxx
Software Developer - Rational UML Modeling

From:	Kevin McGuire/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
To:	E4 developer list <eclipse-incubator-e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	2008-06-24 11:46 AM
Subject:	Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] CSS and declarative UI round up

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(Also on the XSWT front there's this bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=38109)

In view of all the diverse material, and David and Tom's availability,
I'd like to suggest the following split: 

Effort 1: CSS styling technologies 
Effort 2: Declarative UI composition (XSWT, XForms, etc.)

With "Effort 1: CSS styling technologies" being the focus of
this first get together. 

These really address different (though related) problems and there's tons
to dig in for each.  Plus David and Tom would then be available at
a future date to talk XSWT.  In particular I'd like us to get started
on the CSS side because of the possible deep tie-in to SWT.  Finally,
more focus will give greater progress. 

Regards, 
Kevin

Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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06/24/2008 02:42 AM

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David Orme schrieb:
> XSWT is pretty well known.  Kevin McLaren invented it and several
others 
> and myself have maintained it over the years.
> 
> I have quite a bit of business travel coming up and I'll demo it if
the 
> schedule fits in with my travels.  Failing that, Tom Schindl
and I have 
> a pretty shared vision of where it should go and he can demo his version
> (EXSWT) if he's available, wants to, and it doesn't work out for me
to demo.
> 

I'm sorry but I'm filled with company projects before my holiday (mid of
July til the first days of August floating along in Norway) starts. I'm
always here to answer questions if there are any and taking part in 
discussion but I won't have time to prepare a presentation and/or code
any e4 related stuff until mid of August where hopefully the project 
load goes back to a normal level or we find more talented co-workers (I
read Ed is free :-).

By the way Eric, I know you started modelling the workbench with EMF, is
there any code/model around already?

Tom

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