

Socks - A javascript UI toolkit inspired by Shoes - desheikh
http://wiki.github.com/petejkim/socks
Introducing Socks. An easy to use javascript UI toolkit with Shoes (http://www.shoooes.net) like syntax. Build webapps quickly and easily with no knowledge of HTML or CSS.
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Sephr
IMO, a better MIME type would be application/socks+ecmascript or
application/socks+javascript instead of application/javascript-socks. That
looks closer to how content types that are built on XML have their MIME types.
For example, XHTML's MIME type is application/xhtml+xml, not application/xml-
xhtml.

Also, a shoes-like syntax is already available in JavaScript, though it would
be very hard to utilize as-is (in <JS 1.7, wrap in a function and use `var'
instead of `let'):

    
    
        app: {
          stack: {
            para("Foo 1"); // para as a function
            para: "Foo 2"; // para as a label
            button: {
              let bar = new Button("Bar");
              bar.onclick = function() { alert("Baz!") }
            };
            flow: {
              style: ({ // CSS block
                color: "red",
                after: {
                  content: "!"
                }
              });
              para("This is red and ends with an exclamation point");
            }
          }
        }

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raingrove
thanks a lot for your insight. will look into fixing those in future releases

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chaosmachine
This project makes the same mistake Prototype does: Using the unmodified name
of an existing tech concept.

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omouse
I started a similar project last year during the summer:
<http://github.com/omouse/sandals/tree/master>

I called it Sandals and it's dead mainly because I'm lazy but also because I
find it stupid to re-invent the wheel. YAY yet another UI toolkit to learn
_grumble_

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helium
Hmmm... pretty cool. I wrote a little sample app for this that will generate a
sierpinski triangle:

[http://cloud.github.com/downloads/petejkim/socks/socks-
chaos...](http://cloud.github.com/downloads/petejkim/socks/socks-chaos.html)

And the code: <http://gist.github.com/113435>

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andreyf
That doesn't look like JS syntax... am I missing something, or are they using
JS to parse/interpret it?

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jayro
It's JavaScript object literal syntax.

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misuba
No - the application/javascript-socks scripts are putting Ruby-style code
blocks in places JavaScript doesn't generally allow them. Presumably that's
the reason for the alternate MIME type on the script.

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jcapote
Looking over the api it's pretty thorough and the custom controls look very
polished; nice work.

