[Typo3-dev] Typo3 Data Model && call for ideas

[Martin T. Kutschker]

dan frost wrote:
> Sounds good. I was thinking of writing an applet which could be run as 
> an application - so it could be both.
> 
> A better UI<-->Core API system would be good. I suppose we just need to 
> define the various messages. Does XUL do this?

No, XUL is strictly about the GUI and is BTW styled via CSS (with some 
XUL specfic extensions).

You have your basic elements like buttons and labels. And then you have 
of course menus and toolbars - and even more funs things likes 
multi-column lists and trees. The latter can be populated either 
programatically or via a RDF datasource.

So you would not need to worry about XUL. Better define a SOAP and/or 
XML-RPC interface. Of course one might to add fetures like RDF 
representations solely for the benefit of a Mozilla-based app.

And there should be - among other things to consider - some kind of 
notifcation protocol. If you have a client, you don't want to load the 
entire page tree every time.

Masi