Re: IB as a User Interface Designer
Re: IB as a User Interface Designer
- Subject: Re: IB as a User Interface Designer
- From: Colin Clark <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:34:01 -0500
Hi Lyle,
Unfortunately you can't really avoid HTML if you're developing Web applications, it's sort of the nature of the beast. Kind of like trying to avoid AppKit while writing an OpenStep application. It's only possible for the simplest cases.
There is WebObjects Builder for creating user interfaces for WebObjects applications. It is, in many ways, quite similar to Interface Builder in that it provides you with a palette of common interface widgets which you can then bind up to the controller code defined in your WOComponents. For RAD work--assuming you're less concerned with appearance and more with just mocking up behaviour--it's quite effective and doesn't add much in the way of extra burden coding HTML. I would suggest taking a look at it and seeing if it's appropriate for your needs.
An alternative, of course, is using Direct-To-Web which provides a number of pre-determined page templates which you can leverage. But DTW is of course much more than that, and would still require some HTML coding to customize your interfaces. In the end, if you're designing production-quality user interfaces for the Web, you can't avoid HTML and JavaScript regardless of the approach you take.
Colin
On Friday, March 11, 2005, at 12:56 AM, Lyle D. Parkyn wrote:
Long lost NeXTSTEP developer here.
I need to design some user interfaces for a web application for specifcation purposes. I want to do it quickly without having to deal with HTML, javascript, XML or any similar baggage. As a previous fan of Interface Builder from NeXTSTEP days I am hoping I might use IB in its WebObjects incarnation for this purpose. FrontPage, Dreamweaver require to much fussing about with HTML details. Will IB do what I need? If not can anyone suggest another tool.
Thanks
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Lyle D. Parkyn (email@hidden)
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Colin Clark
Dynamic Web and Database Development Lead,
Resource Centre for Academic Technology,
University of Toronto
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