On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> I'm wondering. For now, and unless the volume grows,  could we arrange
> for that list to be copied here too?

Ok, well, if explicitly discussing my pet project here isn't considered
off topic -

Having dumped the beginnings of the framework out into the world, I'm
curious what directions to move in when I next get some time.  If anyone's
played with it enough, what are the most important things to get done?  In
my mind, these are (in no particular order):

- Improving the designer/html side of things, including good
support for splitting the template off into a separate file, and more
support for non-dynamic attributes on dynamic tags (eg, right now, dynamic
tables lose their alignment attributes, etc).

- Expanding and improving the library of dynamic elements, eg. making
framesets more feasible.

- Improving (and documenting!) the ability to embed reusable
subcomponents; starting to build a library of these.

- Making deployment more of a possibility - daemons, log files, multiple
applications, restrictions on resource usage...

- Better error reporting.

- Documentation, documentation, documentation.  And more examples.

Oh, and -

- Develop a good object-relational database mapping tool, and integrate 
it with Iowa.

Thoughts?

Avi