From mike.pence at gmail.com  Thu Jan 31 22:40:39 2008
From: mike.pence at gmail.com (Mike Pence)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:40:39 -0500
Subject: [Cells-talk] Which event model?
Message-ID: <d8ee51740801311940q5b37c42ahc8cfb770a32f4a31@mail.gmail.com>

So, I am christening my components on Rails project with the working
name "nirvana", inspired by DHH's use of that term here:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/no-compromise-stateful-row

I am thinking about what the event model should look like, and I
recall that Netscape/NeXT's IFC, before it became JFC, which became
Swing, had an elegant little hierarchical event model. Messages got
passed to the parent component if the child did not know how to handle
it, all the way up the chain. I realize that declared EventListeners
and such  are the style these days, but I find that overly complex for
most uses.

What event-driven interfaces that you have encountered inspired you?
What did it look like?

BTW, I went to create a Google Code project named nirvana, but that
name was taken. The owner of that other project may choose to let me
use the name anyway, but a synonym or different working name
altogether may be in order.

Best,
Mike Pence