[cells-devel] [OpenAIR] Escape velocity?

[Frank Goenninger]

Am 11.04.2008 um 23:47 schrieb Ken Tilton:
> Ken Tilton wrote:
>> I will play with this.
>
> I get it! Hopefully this will be a great weekend, I am really going  
> to tear into what Andy has accomplished and see if I can rig up  
> something just a little more transparent.
>
> What I see is a pattern with a page having an attribute of X and  
> then a widget for X that has a rule watching the parameter X. That  
> works well (again my deliberate withholding of Cells doc fails to  
> stop an adopter!) but I want to see if we can simply create a widget  
> named X and have it all Just Work, eliminating what is not all that  
> bad, viz., creating a parallel slot on the page instance. But that  
> trick might get exciting if we get into arrays/lists where a page  
> has two Xs as children -- well, it could be handled, but why not  
> automate that?
>
> It gets trickier because we want a two-way exchange here -- maybe we  
> have a c?n rule which when suitably provoked calculates a new  
> initial default based on the user selecting an entirely new  
> something-else in some other field. So sometimes when a value  
> changes the Lisp model must be told, and sometimes the ajax model  
> must be told.
>
> I think sorting /this/ out will make for a more interesting weekend  
> and possibly have me extending Cells a little.

Exactly what I'm after - man, if we can get this done then we have THE  
killer app for Cells!

Yup - so let's hack away ...

Frank