[MacRuby-devel] PBI - HTML and CSS in HotCocoa

[Joshua Ballanco]

If you would like layout of elements with in HTML style, that's pretty  
much what Shoes (http://shoooes.net/) is. I had a discussion back in  
September of implementing Shoes on-top-of or along-side HotCocoa (http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2008-September/000508.html 
), but there are problems with attempting to meld the two. For one  
thing, there's the "instance_eval" issue. Still, I think it would be  
useful to implement Shoes in MacRuby. I just haven't had time to give  
this any serious work.

Cheers,

Josh


On Nov 21, 2008, at 4:52 PM, elliottcable wrote:

> This sounds like an idea with potential.
>
> Perhaps a new framework for creating "HTML" applications, that takes  
> the HTML and uses a WebView - but instead of actually ending up with  
> a WebView, the data is pulled out and passed onto a true Cocoa  
> interface, kinda thing?
>
> On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Rich Morin wrote:
>
>> It's possible to use HotCocoa to lay out windows, but (AFAIK)
>> the developer still has to do most of the layout, specifying
>> co-ordinates, etc.
>>
>> Like lots of other Ruby developers, I'm comfortable with HTML
>> and CSS layout.  So, I wonder how hard it would be to convince
>> WebApp (for example) to accept web layout commands and hand
>> back the resulting co-ordinates.  Some kind of AJAX hack could
>> even be used, I suspect, to get dynamic JavaScript support.
>>
>> I'd love to hear about any show-stoppers, other ideas, etc.  I
>> would be even happier to get some implementation hints (:-).
>>
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