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Re: Native GUI (was Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch)

The more I read about Ruby the more I like. Unfortunately I haven't had time to play with it. Look at the ease that Rails adds web interfacing. With an add-in package, Ruby on Rails appears to easily integrate AJAX (that Web 2.0 posterchild) into the mix: http:// www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cb12056/
The only wierdness in my mind about Rails is its reliance on "convention" for database access. It works on a bit of behind-the- scenes magic just like RPG cycle logic.
An object-oriented language for an object-oriented system; sounds like a perfect fit for creating a Web GUI. 

--Loyd

On Dec 9, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
I guess the "idea" that I have been musing about has to do with "native" 
GUI and I guess I am even wrong on the use of that acronym. If I could
scroll back, then I would replace all my references to a "native" GUI to read "native, HTML rendered UI", since in the vast majority of cases the GUI we deal with is HTML in a web browser. Maybe there is another name for an HTML rendered UI rather than GUI, but that is what I was thinking. 

http://www.blackrobes.net

There's nowhere to run, so let's just get it over.

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