Reading about Rui was very interesting, but there's a serious problem that you have that will, IMHO, limit the odds of people reaching for Rui as a solution (as the above thread tends to suggest). Specifically, you spend much time explaining what Rui does, but you don't spend much time giving concrete examples of why I would want it. Even your Why use it information has the following:

The web itself is quite hostile to the developers who want rich object-oriented UIs. DHTML is a long way from a UI framework, and the entire idea of going from page-to-page-to-page, does not mix well with UIs that are efficient and usable. There are two scenarios where you might want to use the Rui IE6 DHTML framework:

• As the client to a specific server-side UI framework that partitions on the presentation layer: a Rui server ( Java or Perl ), or roll your own.
• As a UI framework for browser based applications. In this case you use the Rui IE6 DHTML framework in Javascript. The Javascript is hand-coded, generated by JSPs, WebForms, or whatever other way you use to generate HTML.

I can't speak for other developers, but when I see stuff like that, my eyes tend to glaze over. When I looked at the screenshot, I didn't see anything that looked like an application (is that it, buried in the upper left?).

I have a vague sense that there is something really interesting here. There's an MVC framework and the suggestion that I can add different front ends in wxPerl or something similar. However, to really get me excited, take a problem and show me why Rui is a good answer. Walk me through the problem step by step and then compare and contrast the Rui solution to alternatives. Until I see something like that, I'll likely just be confused.

Frankly, I hope you keep working with this. I do a lot of Web-based application development and sometimes the frustrations of this environment make me want to pull my hair out. Your work suggests that there are reasonable alternatives, but I cringe at reading such dense jargon (no offense!).

Cheers,
Ovid

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