Re: iPhone Rich UI

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I agree. 
>
> I haven't used EGL, but Joe's point may be from a programmer standpoint,
> those are the only "four lines of code" he needed to write, and EGL
> provided the functions invokeREST, getDOMElement, and
> getElementByTagName natively. I don't want to speak for Joe because he
> didn't explicitly mention this.
>
> By the same token, Aaron may have a framework that provides WS_invode,
> DOM_getData, and DOM_build. Or he may have written those subprocedures
> himself - like Joe, he didn't explicitly state that fact.
>
> Until we have an understanding of what each language provides natively,
> versus add-on frameworks or programmer-written code (i.e. plumbing),
> these comparisons are meaningless.
>   
I didn't think I needed to explain it, but you're entirely correct, 
Loyd.  My examples show actual EGL code using system-supplied libraries 
and classes - just the same as when you're showing Java code using 
system classes or RPG using native opcodes.  This is the stuff you get 
out of the box.

Too many examples on the list of late have used proprietary internal 
frameworks and frankly that's not showing anybody anything.  I can write 
an MRP generation in one line: generateMRP().  Does that actually 
provide any meaningful information?  No.

Joe