What if I created a "ui html" element? The idea here is that when you bring this element into the script, it will replace the entire ui area with an html panel. It would be like a stripped down web browser. The idea isn't to be able to surf the web, but rather to be able to custom design your ui with html, css, and javascript if you so desire.
To get it to interact with your script, you'll use special attributes in your form tags. So for instance:
<input type="text" variable="#username" fillwith="value" />
This would create a text box that fills the #username variable with whatever is in the value attribute whenever you type in the box. I'd like to also implement buttons, which may be used like this:
<button runsub="clearlist">Clear List</button>
This would run the "clearlist" sub every time someone hit the button. Haven't fully decided how I'd implement this, so I may start with the other part first.
Think about the control this would give you. You could really design the ui section exactly how you'd like to. You could put in a logo and a pretty background, you could have a link to your home page (it would have to open in a new window), you could even use javascript and flash if you wanted.
Of course, you could also use all the current commands and not think about the html, if you so choose.
I'm getting excited about it, so let me know what you think, and if it sounds like a winner, I'll get working on it.
