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How cool is that?

Wanting to make some notes here about some things that I'm just now realizing are possible with the combined technologies mentioned in the title line. This is to remind myself to

1. look up whether or not some of these ideas have been implemented, like: I know for sure there are Javascript solutions out there for things like Color Selection Dialogs, calendar widgets for date/time entry, and so on. Not so sure about things like GUI interfaces to controlling CSS attribute properties. And didn't I see a Javascript (back in the day) that would set stylesheet properties in real time, on a page already loaded into the browser?
2. Write some code to implement things like positioning a control box on a form at design time - this is basically the VB concept: realtime control of the CSS properties [attributes?] of e.g. an HTML element (or a logical grouping of HTML elements - a "control") by up/down counter/spinners or drag/drop operations - Should be fairly simple to code up, so much so that I'm having trouble believing such doesn't already exist for the HTML/PHP/CSS universe.

These ideas deserve a more detailed study - just put them here to be sure they're written down and accessible.

The link at W3C that set all this thought process in motion – at least, this phase of it – is the one given above with the title:  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#comparison

Labels: css, html, javascript, php, webappdev

posted by pd wilson   #   09:49