[Gambas-user] Web application development

[Rob]

On Sunday 15 October 2006 15:52, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> If you have comments, ideas, needs on how should work such a
> component, tell now!

As soon as I'm done with the project I've been working on all 
year, I intend to write a "gb.ajax" component that will let you 
take forms designed in the IDE and deploy them as web apps, 
generating the necessary XHTML and Javascript and faking the 
event loop through XMLHttpRequest and some kind of state 
preservation on the server side.  I'm sure there will be 
complications as I develop it, but after spending the last year 
and a half developing a gigantic Ajax app using nothing but 
perl's CGI module, Gambas forms parsed out into HTML, and 
handwritten Javascript, I think I'm ready ;)

I know the aim of my component will be very different than yours 
(I don't intend to let the developer output HTML or Javascript 
code manually at all), but I'm curious as to whether you think 
it would make more sense as its own top level component or if it 
should hang off of gb.asp, or whatever you'll be calling your 
new component.  It seems to me that they're bound to have SOME 
functionality in common, though it's unclear how much.

Rob