Cassowary seems like a good summer-sized project. My only concern is that browsers are already gaining fairly expressive constraint-based layout.
A project that would extend beyond a summer, but move clojure to the forefront of UI development (and by "forefront" I mean "up to early 1990s state of the art"), would be a Garnet-like toolkit in clojurescript. Garnet was a little sluggish in Common Lisp 20 years ago. I'd be curious to get a sense of responsiveness in 2012 browsers. Garnet goes well beyond layout to provide declarative interactions and editors. Which are what we all need to develop anyway. Recently "cassowary" has become a hot topic. I'm not sure why. But I fear it's popular among developers today who don't necessarily understand its place amid superseding advances in UI development. See http://garnetlisp.sourceforge.net for information on Garnet. On Friday, April 6, 2012 9:48:47 AM UTC-7, SHIVAM HANDA wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am Shivam Handa, a sophomore at IIT (Indian Institute of > technology), Delhi majoring Computer Science and Engineering. I am > intending to work on Constraint based UI layout as a GSOC project > during the summer. I had a long chat with the mentor of the project > Kevin Lynagh and with his help I have deeper insight into the project. > Therefore I have applied for the same project idea at Gsoc’s website. > The link to proposal is > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/shivamhanda/1. > I have a github page where I have some more info and a plan to upload > some sample code of test cases I have been working on there. The link > is http://www.github.com/kill-switch > > The project aims at creating a high level Api for cassowary constraint > solver for ClojureScript. The project lets the user define layout in > term of a few equations (A DSL implementation for easier use of the > project will help in easily specifying equations) and layout will > follow these equations. One of the direct applications that can be > seen is that values need not be calculated for each and every element. > > My project proposal gives the weekly schedule I will follow. It is > very well insured that all mentioned will be finished on time. All the > specification details of the project as well a good explanation of all > the benefits of the open source community is also given there. > > > I hope you will support me with my proposal. > > > With regards > Shivam Handa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
