Re: For Christmas, I want

On 12/11/2011 11:26 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Industry best. It uses Dojo. Ask your HTML guy about ARIA. Then go
here for an overview of Dojo's i16n and a11y capabilities

That of course is i18n, not i16n. :)

The point is that by integrating so well with Dojo EGL automatically gets all the benefits of that framework, which is one of the best in the business. I get suggestions, hints and Regex validation built in. At the same time, if you find one or more of the Dojo widgets lacking, you are free to use IBM's widgets or create your own. You can create them at the EGL level or if you want even more control you can extend EGL to invoke your own custom JavaScript.

I do most of my work at the EGL level. I have select widgets that connect to database tables, dropdowns that populate themselves at initialization time and field widgets that are normally output but allow user override. Since they're business widgets, they all have optional prompt labels. All of them allow you to specify additional style classes which can then be used to make layout changes in the CSS.

EGL is a different concept than most 4GLs before it. In fact, it shares some basic characteristics with Eclipse: it's designed from the ground up to be extended. Rather than lock you into a specific programming technique, it lets you the developer do as much or as little as you need to get your job done.

Joe