I am not sure how feasable (or silly) this but, maybe it might ignite some ideas towards, I am not a coder if the idea may not be well founded it is my lack of knowledge of coding and technologies :)
looking to some ideas on ajax form builders -Drupal on progress demo of
http://www.freewebs.com/socdemocode/prototype0/
and others
http://formassembly.com/form-builder-v2.3/
http://www.jotform.com/
http://wufoo.com/demo/
If ajax form builders can build Text input area, Radio buttons, The Text Area, Check Box etc. can they also build themlate elements of html, css, php functions, elements, clases variables
ie.
> add a class
> add a divider
> add a column etc.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html
add 'content' => t('content'),
add 'header' => t('header'),
add 'right' => t('sidebar'),
add 'left' => t('sidebar'),
add 'footer' => t('footer'),
add 'floater' => t('floater'), etc.
if it is possible Drupal might have full flegged online Template builder
here is a good collection of libraries might be used
http://edevil.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/javascript-libraries-roundup/
maybe it might ignite some ideas towards, as i said i am not a coder if the idea sounds not well founded it is my ignorence of coding and technologies :)
ps: i am not sure I am posting this to the right point in forums, let me know if there is more appropriate place (maybe it should go to theme development?)
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Well...
While it seems reasonable, there are complexities involved that would make this harder to impliment than it seems. Last right I ran into another guy who mentioned planning a similar idea on http://groups.drupal.org/theme-development and even then, what he was talking about was problematic for other reasons.
While I haven't been on the irc channel, my own impression is that the most direct way to communicate an idea is the themes mailing list. As long as people have wanted something like this, though, my impression is that the way theming is done is undergoing even more changes, making the idea impractical at the moment.
Just in case anyone stumbles
Just in case anyone stumbles along this thread, I wanted to point out that an ajax form builder for Drupal 6 does exist.
http://drupal.org/project/form_builder
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