<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This really bothers me and I'm unaware of a perl framework which attempts to deal with web ui widgets as widgets.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Back in 1999 and 2000 I worked at a company that attempted to create just this -- the distribution was called SmartWorker, and we did it in Perl. If you google on "Smartworker Perl" you can find references to it, but I can't find out where a source distribution still lives. Perhaps Backpan would help out with this.<br>
<br>Anyhow, it never really worked out. It was dog slow, and it was ugly. And the business model attached to it never really panned out.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My personal opinion is we are at the mercy of managers who care about pretty<br>
pictures and rounded corners and designers who care about the same thing.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>To this I would add "And rightly they should!"<br><br>The reason why managers care is because their customers and/or investors care. Users want some combination of form and function in their software. They don't care about the back-end that provides it.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br> - Richard<br><br></div></div>