[Gambas-user] New gb.web.form component

[Moviga Technologies]

This looks interesting. I think if you want to stay on par with HTML5,
you should not use inline CSS though. 

Also, I believe that using flexboxes for layout containers would be a
very good idea :) (take a look here:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/) 

Form controls should also be implemented, but that I believe you have
already planned?! 

Den 10.11.2015 05:19, skrev Benoît Minisini: 

> Hi,
> 
> The gb.web.form is a new component whose goal is easing Web application 
> developement by mainly allowing to use the IDE form editor to define 
> your GUI interface.
> 
> It will use the web browser mainly as a sophisticated terminal. All the 
> application logic will be run on the server. It won't allow you to 
> create an application entirely in javascript that will be run inside the 
> browser (like Google docs for example).
> 
> The GUI is based a hierarchy of classes inheriting WebControl. The web 
> page is defined by a WebForm class. And you have a generic container 
> control, a button control, and a HTML control at the moment.
> 
> Complex javascript run on the browser must be implemented through 
> dedicated web controls. For example, we can imagine a control to put 
> OpenStreetMap inside your web application, a tree view, a grid view...
> 
> How to switch from one web form to another one is not designed yet. At 
> the moment, the url 'http://<server>/<root>/abcd' is supposed to display 
> the web form whose class name is 'abcd'. There is no way to have 
> different instances of the same web form.
> 
> The application state is stored in the user session. Don't expect to run 
> millions of users at the same time without suffering.
> 
> Do understand that the web application is a CGI script that must build 
> everything from scratch at each request, contrary to a normal 
> application. It has performance impact.
> 
> It is really an embryo at the moment, but you can run the project to 
> display a WebForm1 test form and see how it behaves.
> 
> Just tell me what you think about that, what ideas you have, and so on!