[tpm] Perl as a career

Antonio Sun antoniosun at lavabit.com
Sun Mar 8 16:08:24 PDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Abram Hindle
<abram.hindle at softwareprocess.us> wrote:
> My concern these days is for all the focus of webapp frameworks to be so
> HTML/CSS/JS/ORM centric. Many of them seem to completely ignore the fact
> that
> we made UIs for years by using abstractions such as widgets. . .
> The only place I've seen/been told where the "abstract the web as a UI,
> provide
> widgets" approach has taken off has been ASP.NET.

By widgets do you mean Buttons, Menus, Toolbar, ProgressBar, etc. and
Panels like:

    * GridPanel
    * TabPanel
    * TreePanel
    * FormPanel

etc, and Windows Layout Managers?

If so, have you checked out the ExtJS that I mentioned?
http://extjs.com/products/extjs/


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