[Sigia-l] The IA in RIAs

[Bill Pawlak]

> Things I'd love to see in x-browser HTML ... drag and drop columns,
> easy column text truncation where I don't have to write the rules for
> it each time.
> 
> These two things should just be, well standard widget definitions
> instead of the level of complexity I feel most developers perceive
> this to be (remember, x-browser; and I'd accept Mozilla, MSIE, Opera,
> Safari w/ Windows and MacOS as is appropriate.

I asked for similar things for Christmas, but Santa didn't deliver...
basically a non-microsoft-only extended set of native-browser objects
that would allow for more advanced data interaction/manipulation.  :)

I'm tired of all the javascript hacks... why not include a <table> tag
that has the top row fixed and the columns sortable?  Why is that only
possible on some browsers with 15k of script to make it work?  Why not
give us a native "dual combo-box add/remove to/from list" object?  So
we don't have to keep going back to javascript.com to see if someone's
written a more robust version than the one we've been chopping up and
re-serving for 4 years?  Where's the spinner boxes?

Not that I use spinner boxes a lot, but I'm actually surprised 'the
world' has gone on this long writing bug-ridden javascript code... 
its *these* types of things that I think are making / will make the
biggest splash in the RIA issue.

bill