Re: WOBuilder Replacement
Re: WOBuilder Replacement
- Subject: Re: WOBuilder Replacement
- From: Janine Sisk <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:26:23 -0700
On Jul 6, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
Two: when new developers start poking at WO the complaint I hear is
"The docs are unclear and incomplete", not "What?!!? No WYWISYG
HTML editor?". It is a nice to have feature, not a critical one,
in attracting new developers. The critical thing seems to be in
having good tutorials and clear beginner docs. I certainly see
progress being made this year in those areas.
WOBuilder is really one name for several different features. There's
the WYSIWYG editor, the drag-n-drop bindings, the ability to edit the
source, and probably more I'm forgetting now.
The only feature of WOBuilder that I consider important is the one
that helps you to visualize what your component will look like when
it's rendered. WOBuilder always did a lousy job of this, especially
without real data, but some things were just easier to see, like
whether your form really enclosed all the things it was supposed to.
I happen to think that this one piece is something that some people
will find useful regardless of how experienced they are; some people
are just better at visualizing from words than others.
Personally this is the only piece I think we need. I have no idea if
this could be built as a plug-in to Eclipse or some other existing
package (maybe Coda, like someone else said) or if it would have to
be a standalone app. It wouldn't even have to be an editor; a
viewer where you could preview what your WOLips-produced component
would look like would satisfy me. The icing on the cake would be if
it would allow entry of dummy data for display purposes, but that
would probably require reinventing too much of WO to be practical.
Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but I do think this
approach would be simpler than making a full WOBuilder clone. It
would be interesting to find out which WOBuilder features people
actually want; maybe Pascal's survey can capture that.
janine
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