AJAX and DHTML are alreay beeing utilized to -m-i-m-i-c traditional GUIs in Web applications
Everything is mimicked now days, why the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached
...though only much more crappier.
Sure, but we are comparing a system here with a few months of development behind it, against modern desktop GUIs with several decades of development behind them. I think it could make a good slogan though... "it's like a traditional GUI... only much more crappier".
It seems PHP-specific. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but a kit that is server-language-neutral would have wider use.
If someone is keen to do it, there is nothing stopping them from re-implementing the PHP backend in another language. PHP is my language of choice, so the backend is written in PHP. I don't think this would be very difficult to re-implement as the bulk of the code is in the Javascript frontend and would require very little modification to work with a new backend.
I didn't see a decent editable grid widget in the list.
There is no editable grid as I have not had a need or request for one yet. But an hour ago there was no popup color selector widget... and now there is. I've built a base set of widgets (most of which can be data bound) and have been building extra widgets as required. If you want a specific widget built, put together some specs on what you want and request it. Or you could always jump in and build it yourself. Either way I am more then happy to help.
the documentation is poor IMO, at least on the large-scale.
Yep, the documentation sucks. At the moment the Programming Reference Manual is being build directly from my comments in the code and is far from complete, but this is improving on a daily basis. And if you download APhPLIX there is a sample application included that gives more of an understanding of how the whole system works, along with a lot of
extra documentation in the code, and skeleton classes for building custom plugins and widgets.
APhPLIX has been in development for less then a year and has only been publicly available for a little over 2 months, so we are in the very early stages of development and there are bound to be some rough edges. Having said this, the APhPLIX Rapid Application Development environment (APhPLIX Development Studio) is an example of the kind of stable, feature rich application that can already be built using the APhPLIX toolkit. There are also several large scale proprietary applications that have been built using the APhPLIX toolkit & APhPLIX Development Studio.
APhPLIX is entirely GPL licensed and is being very actively developed. Improvements and contributions to the APhPLIX codebase will be gratefully accepted.
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Sure, but we are comparing a system here with a few months of development behind it, against modern desktop GUIs with several decades of development behind them. I think it could make a good slogan though... "it's like a traditional GUI... only much more crappier".
There is no editable grid as I have not had a need or request for one yet. But an hour ago there was no popup color selector widget... and now there is. I've built a base set of widgets (most of which can be data bound) and have been building extra widgets as required. If you want a specific widget built, put together some specs on what you want and request it. Or you could always jump in and build it yourself. Either way I am more then happy to help.
Yep, the documentation sucks. At the moment the Programming Reference Manual is being build directly from my comments in the code and is far from complete, but this is improving on a daily basis. And if you download APhPLIX there is a sample application included that gives more of an understanding of how the whole system works, along with a lot of extra documentation in the code, and skeleton classes for building custom plugins and widgets.
APhPLIX has been in development for less then a year and has only been publicly available for a little over 2 months, so we are in the very early stages of development and there are bound to be some rough edges. Having said this, the APhPLIX Rapid Application Development environment (APhPLIX Development Studio) is an example of the kind of stable, feature rich application that can already be built using the APhPLIX toolkit. There are also several large scale proprietary applications that have been built using the APhPLIX toolkit & APhPLIX Development Studio.
APhPLIX is entirely GPL licensed and is being very actively developed. Improvements and contributions to the APhPLIX codebase will be gratefully accepted.
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