On May 2, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Ben Francis wrote:
Khalid B wrote:
Is XUL the correct approach?
I did wonder this myself, but note that the specification states "XULRunner", which I have interpreted as meaning a cross platform desktop application (like Firefox or Thunderbird) rather than web application.
This is the reason I am asking whether writing an API with something like SOAP would be appropriate.
SOAP is bloated, hence AJAX not AJAS :-) If we can get away with XML-RPC plus javascript that would be better but we can discover the appropriate technologies as we dig in. I'll start connecting you with the appropriate people off-line. Cheers, Kieran
This would expose the Drupal module to a desktop client as a web service but also enable anyone to write their own custom web app which calls the API. I may even do this in the future as well.
At first, I was a bit dubious, but now that I've thought about it I think this would be a very useful and flexible way of implementing the administration tool to make it useful to a lot of different people (including myself).
I would love to have the opportunity to write a PHP module, a web service and a JavaScript/CSS Desktop XUL application - it would be my ideal project. The only question is whether this can all be completed in the allotted time.
Regards
Ben
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