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Posted to xap-commits@incubator.apache.org by bb...@apache.org on 2007/06/27 15:39:16 UTC
svn commit: r551202 - /incubator/xap/site/index.html
Author: bbuffone
Date: Wed Jun 27 08:39:15 2007
New Revision: 551202
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=551202
Log:
fixed spelling and grammar errors.
Modified:
incubator/xap/site/index.html
Modified: incubator/xap/site/index.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/xap/site/index.html?view=diff&rev=551202&r1=551201&r2=551202
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--- incubator/xap/site/index.html (original)
+++ incubator/xap/site/index.html Wed Jun 27 08:39:15 2007
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
<td style="font-size: 8pt; padding-right: 10px;" class="none">
<span class="Title">The Ajax Open Source Declarative Framework</span><br /><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>XAP is an XML-based declarative framework for building,
- deploying and maintaining rich, interactive Ajax powered web applications. It aims to reduce
+ deploying and maintaining rich, interactive Ajax powered web applications. XAP aims to reduce
the need for scripting and help solve the development and maintenance challenges associated with
large scale JavaScript programming. <br /><br />
@@ -141,13 +141,11 @@
</xal><br><br>
</div>
- <p>XAP provides a complete framework for building Ajax applications. Whether you're building
- a large application with many screens or you simply want to enhance an existing website with Ajax.
- <br><br>
- The XAP project can help get your project done quicker and easier.</p>
+ <p>XAP is a complete framework for building Ajax applications. Whether you're building
+ a large application with many screens or you simply want to enhance an existing website with Ajax, the XAP project can help get your project done quicker and easier.</p>
<p>
- <b>Why is Declaritive important?</b><br>
+ <b>Why is Declarative important?</b><br>
<br>
Markup languages provide several key benefits to application development:
<ul><li>Provide an abstraction and normization layer between the underlying implementation and the developer.
@@ -156,18 +154,18 @@
worry what the underlying API calls are.
</p>
</li>
- <li>Markup languages provide a solid base to build tooling ontop off.
+ <li>Markup languages provide a solid base to build tooling on top of.
<p>
How many visual tools are there for HTML? Plenty.<br>
- How many for JavaScript? No Many.
+ How many for JavaScript? Not many.
- <p>This is becuase makup is well defined and tools can easily read and write it. Even if a
+ <p>This is because markup is well defined and tools can easily read and write it. Even if a
developer changes it by hand, the markup still remains readable by a tool.
</p>
</li>
- <li>Markup languages are easier to understand and simpler to pick up then code. Would web application
- development grown so quickly if developers had to use JavaScript to create all web applications?
- Probably Not.
+ <li>Markup languages are easier to understand and learn than code. Would web application
+ development have grown so quickly if developers had to use JavaScript to create all web applications?
+ Probably not.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
@@ -203,29 +201,29 @@
</tr>
<tr height="30px">
<td valign="top" align="center">
- <span class="Title">Whats cool in XAP?</span>
+ <span class="Title">What's cool in XAP?</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="font-family: tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<div style="font-size:10px;">
<img src="images/menu_bullet.gif" border=0 style="vertical-align: middle;"> <b>xModify - ></b> Makes it possible to use a
- markup to to DOM modification agianst either the HTML document or the XAL UI document. <br><br>
+ declarative markup to execute DOM modification against either the HTML document or the XAL UI document. <br><br>
<div align="center"><a href="docs/xmodify/frame-index.html"><b>Check out the documentation</b></a><br><br></div>
- <div align="center" style="background-color:#EFF;border:1px solid orange;align:center;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;"><h2>3 KB implementation <br>ontop of jQuery</h2>
+ <div align="center" style="background-color:#EFF;border:1px solid orange;align:center;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;"><h2>3 KB implementation <br>on top of jQuery</h2>
Click the <b>"Processors"</b> link in the xModify documentation section.</a><br><br></div>
<br><br>
<img src="images/menu_bullet.gif" border=0 style="vertical-align: middle;"> <b>UI - ></b> XAP has all the widgets that are needed to get started building
large Ajax Applications: table, tree, tab, dialog, layout panels, splitter, form components, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Live Maps, ...<br><br>
- <img src="images/menu_bullet.gif" border=0 style="vertical-align: middle;"> <b>Marcos - ></b> Developers can use macros to execute xModify operations via the XAP
+ <img src="images/menu_bullet.gif" border=0 style="vertical-align: middle;"> <b>Macros - ></b> Developers can use macros to execute xModify operations via the XAP
JavaScript APIs or through the event handler expression language.<br><br>
<button text="Login" onCommand= "macro:myMacro.execute()"/>
<br><br>
- <img src="images/menu_bullet.gif" border=0 style="vertical-align: middle;"> <b>MCO - ></b> Keep your business logic completely seperated from
+ <img src="images/menu_bullet.gif" border=0 style="vertical-align: middle;"> <b>MCO - ></b> Keep your business logic completely separated from
the UI definition. This make code maintenance easier and development quicker. The XAP client will create the JavaScript POJOs which
can be accessed from the UI markup via a simple expression language.<br><br>
<button text="Login" onCommand= "mco:myEventCode.functionName()"/>
@@ -251,7 +249,7 @@
<table width=100% BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" style="background-color: white; nothing: #F7F8FA;">
<tr>
<td colspan="7" align="center" style="border-top: 1px white solid; padding-top: 8px;">
- <span class="subheader" style="color: #295A8F; font-size: 7pt;">Copyright 2006
+ <span class="subheader" style="color: #295A8F; font-size: 7pt;">Copyright 2006-2007
<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/" style="font-size: 8pt; ; color: #295A8F;">The Apache Software Foundation<a>
</span>
</td>