[Haskell-cafe] Elegant & powerful replacement for CSS

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Isn't CSS about giving a "style" to the "views" in the model-view-controller
paradigm? So basically it is a way to change the look of a user interface,
without having to change the user interface definition itself.
But isn't this just an environment monad that has functions to convert a
model into a view (= geometry = render function + picking function)? Plugin
a different environment and voila, the widgets are painted and maybe even
layed differently, but you don't have to change any code or data....

Of course what a  "model" really is, is not fully clear:
http://blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/archive/2005/10/08/478683.aspx

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.heard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 <conal at conal.net>:
> > [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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