22 August 2003

Erik Arvidsson, the DHTML guru behind WebBoard and WebFX, revealed what he had been working on since last year: Bindows.  Bindows is a DHTML framework that emulates Swing/WinForms UI, similar to what Convea and Oddpost.  I am not sure yet, but Bindows seems to use XML to define its GUI.  It seems pretty slow though.  I suspect that most, but not all, of the slow speed is due to the server-side misdesigns. [Don Park's Daily Habit] Not slow here, and in combination with Zeepe 7 to do the grunge UI bits like menus and toolbars (and hence reduce the download size) and provide a properly controllable framewindow would make a very powerful toolkit. (Interesting that their web service support is MS webserver.htc with the same limitation - i.e. must call back to the origin server). posted at: 10:53:17 PM   ping posted at: 4:30:29 PM   How to Consume the Amazon.com Web Service. The online retailer allows other Web sites to access its product inventory listings (and therefore to help sell its products) by exposing that information as a Web service. This article explains how to access the Web service using SOAP. By (Thiru Thangarathinum) editorial@devx.com. [DevX: Latest Published Articles] If you wanna do this, contains all the links you'll need. posted at: 9:33:25 AM

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