[dev] "Divot" idea

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Jason M. Felice" <jfelice at cronosys.com>:

> Attached is an incomplete but illustrative example of a concept that 
> I'm working on for a possible new PEAR library tenatively called 
> "Divot."  A divot is sort of an HTML widget... it could be a form 
> control, or a form, or a reusable spin component.
>
> The idea is to be able to automagically dispatch events back to their 
> respective objects, and automatically handle Ajax callbacks, and 
> still have all the code localized to the thing we are working with.  
> And still be lightweight.
>
> Let me know what you think.  I'm only attached to the basic concept, 
> I know there are a lot of things with this idea which could use some 
> work.  Objections of any sort are always welcome.

I like the general idea of having encapsulated widgets. Sort of what we 
started with the blocks, but much more flexible. But I don't understand 
why you would use the memento pattern. From what I can see where you 
are heading at, serializing/deserializing the Divot objects would be 
the appropriate action to restore the object state in the next request.

Jan.

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