Similarly, I've been wondering what's at the core of a GUI? It seems
in recent years that more people have been moving towards web-based
applications, and away from traditional GUIs, so the meaning of them
may be changing. The old question seemed to be Page vs.
Control-Board, but that seems like implementation, when the real
essence of a GUI is taking in common kinds of user input and
displaying output in a sensible way. Similarly, there are more ways
to interact with a computer than ever before, from simple keyboard up
through multitouch interfaces like the iPhone. It would be cool to me
to see a semantic model that captures this.
2009/2/3 Conal Elliott
[Spin-off from the haskell-cafe discussion on functional/denotational GUI toolkits]
I've been wondering for a while now what a well-designed alternative to CSS could be, where well-designed would mean consistent, composable, orthogonal, functional, based on an elegantly compelling semantic model (denotational).
- Conal
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