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Xul, Apollo, WPF, WPF/E No more
Save me from having to type more angle brackets. Please. I’m tired of $#@$@ angle brackets. My “,” and “.” keys are worn to a nub. My shift key is floppy and has no spring left.
No more angle-bracket based UI. EVER. Angle brackets are for giving structure to unstructured data.
Please, just let me use plain text w/o angle brackets to define my UI. Or better yet, graphics. Let me just draw the picture, designate things as clickable/draggable/somethingable and hook them up to my controller.
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March 22nd, 2007 - 13:37
Thank you for voicing this!
I feel the same when it comes with Spring and it’s dependancy injection (Java). All in XML. Though, I’m scared by the ammount of xml that goes around these days.
All hail Guice (for dependancy injection)!
March 23rd, 2007 - 03:27
Check out Cocoa on Mac OS X then? No angle brackets, you draw your user experience. It doesn’t even generate code for it, it’s all archives that are wired to your objects at runtime…
March 23rd, 2007 - 09:33
Chris,
YES. I wrote a post a while back when I compared Interface Builder + Xcode to Visual Studio.
http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php/archives/2005/11/08/xcode-and-visual-studio-go-head-to-head/
Up until VS 2005, Visual Studio couldn’t touch IB’s visual designer. It’s much better in Vs 2005. But I still like the “freeze dried UI” approach that IB uses with it’s NIB files.