GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/13/2010 7:20 AM, lkcl wrote:

>> I'm far from convinced that HTML and CSS are the One True Way
>> to design GUIs these days,
>
>   if you have "HTML the fileformat" and "CSS the fileformat" in mind
> when saying that, i can tell you right now that they're not.
> fortunately, with the W3C DOM functions exposing properties and style
> attributes, it's possible to manipulate the exact same attributes that
> CSS and HTML "files" provide access to, using a declarative
> programming style.

With all the glamour hoopla over html/css/xml, it took me a while to 
realize that the really important thing is the underlying object model 
that the serialization formats communicate. I know this is a bit like 
saying "words are important because of the thougths they express" (which 
is not to say that beauty of expression is unimportant), but my point is 
that in explaining pyjames, you are sometimes running up against a 
fascination with the surface layers. Pyjamas requires a different 
orientation.

Terry Jan Reedy