Mike,
this is so tantalising. The biggest thing I am missing from WO
Builder is the way you can see, in a semi-2d way, which components
are contained in which, what the conditionals are, what the strings
are, and so on. Your new previewer is heading in that direction. In
my excitement, here are the things I'd like to see next:
- some sort of box around the block elements, and the ability to
click on them to select them (yes, just like WO builder) so you can
scroll to the end of that one and see what's next
- hover over a component and see all its bindings (OK, you're going
to tell me to use inline bindings?)
- click on an element and go to the component editor with that
component highlighted
- tables. Yes, tables! Despite the trendy hatred of tables, the W3C
tells us there are times when tables are absolutely right: for
example, a table of data! And being able to see the heading straight
above the cell you are editing is very useful.
I was going to say more, but opening a moderately complex component
in preview soaked 100% CPU in Eclipse, and it still hasn't finished.
I think I'll kill it...
Good on you, Mike! You are awesome! You just keep making it better
and better!
Regards
Thomas
On 04/10/2007, at 7:18 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> * TINKERING with component previews. The preview tab in Component
> Editor actually does something now ... It's VERY MUCH early playing
> around, but it's kind of interesting. WOLips recursively flattens
> all of the components that you declare into a single HTML file
> (SOOORT of like what would happen at runtime) and shows you an HTML
> preview of the component sans runtime (meaning it's purely a
> "static analysis" of your component rather than a live rendering).
> This may turn into something interesting or may just be a huge
> diversion ... Stay tuned for days when I am bored :)
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