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<P><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/</A><BR>
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GWT is a Java -> javascript compiler. It's what all of the google webapps are written in. If you write a little web-widget, the server-side code doesn't need to do any output formatting, just return JSON data. You could have the client widget request data when the user scrolls to that spot.<BR>
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At one point I thought they had a "scrollbar" widget, which wouldn't scroll anything, it'd just hand you the data. Apparently I'm mistaken. Though they do provide a lot of the facilities for writing a widget like that in a browser-independent manner.<BR>
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Check it out, might be worth playing with, might not.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: omaha-pm-bounces+jharr=ist.unomaha.edu@pm.org on behalf of Jay Hannah<BR>
Sent: Fri 11/21/2008 4:59 PM<BR>
To: odynug@googlegroups.com; Perl Mongers of Omaha, Nebraska USA<BR>
Subject: [Omaha.pm] Fishing for GUI ideas...<BR>
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So Mario and I wrote this tool in Perl that kicks out HTML:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/~jhannah/RT386/demo.html">http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/~jhannah/RT386/demo.html</A><BR>
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Click the pretty colors.<BR>
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I have this crazy notion of some sort of GUI where:<BR>
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- Users can seamlessly scroll left and right hundreds of thousands /<BR>
millions of letters without having to stop and jump to another page.<BR>
- I can add parallel rows of ~300 letters which can be clicked to show /<BR>
hide them. But somehow the current horizontal expand/collapse will still<BR>
work. Overlapping rows would magically bump out of each others way.<BR>
- Users could add their own notes at certain places.<BR>
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Given that all this data is unpredictable, with tens of thousands of<BR>
clickable things in the same dataset...<BR>
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How would YOU write that GUI?<BR>
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Stumped,<BR>
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j<BR>
<A HREF="http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah">http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah</A><BR>
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