From: Craig Atkinson <caa@...>
Date: 2001-12-14T04:46:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28447] Re: Design question: remote UIs and distributed objects

I don't have a really good answer to this but I can provide a link.

I've been thinking about something similar and I found this url:
SUDS Soap for UI Development  - http://www.clipcode.com/content/suds.htm

It isn't all that useful as it is essentially just a discussion of what they
intended to do last year but I can find nothing else about the project. They
want to define an almost API for defining a user interface so programs such
as MS Word, Graphics editing, etc could be implemented in a browser. They
key is that it is a hosted application and uses SOAP to actually do
anything.


I think the idea has tonnes of merit and I've been thinking lately about how
best to implement something like they describe. Creating an XML DTD to
describe how a program looks and what a program does might be possible. Then
you need a way for the browser to recognize what to create. I'd rather make
it as generalized as possible so that you don't need to do heavy development
and have binary downloads for each hosted application you want. I haven't
really gotten anywhere yet so if anybody has any suggestions ...

Craig Atkinson.