http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
GWT is a Java -> _javascript_ compiler. It's what all of the google webapps are written in. If you write a little web-widget, the server-side code doesn't need to do any output formatting, just return JSON data. You could have the client widget request data when the user scrolls to that spot.
At one point I thought they had a "scrollbar" widget, which wouldn't scroll anything, it'd just hand you the data. Apparently I'm mistaken. Though they do provide a lot of the facilities for writing a widget like that in a browser-independent manner.
Check it out, might be worth playing with, might not.
-----Original Message-----
From: omaha-pm-bounces+jharr=ist.unomaha.edu@pm.org on behalf of Jay Hannah
Sent: Fri 11/21/2008 4:59 PM
To: odynug@googlegroups.com; Perl Mongers of Omaha, Nebraska USA
Subject: [Omaha.pm] Fishing for GUI ideas...
So Mario and I wrote this tool in Perl that kicks out HTML:
http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/~jhannah/RT386/demo.html
Click the pretty colors.
I have this crazy notion of some sort of GUI where:
- Users can seamlessly scroll left and right hundreds of thousands /
millions of letters without having to stop and jump to another page.
- I can add parallel rows of ~300 letters which can be clicked to show /
hide them. But somehow the current horizontal expand/collapse will still
work. Overlapping rows would magically bump out of each others way.
- Users could add their own notes at certain places.
Given that all this data is unpredictable, with tens of thousands of
clickable things in the same dataset...
How would YOU write that GUI?
Stumped,
j
http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah
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