# User Interface / View Looks

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-interface-view-looks/158850>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 28, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-interface-view-looks/158850 "2009-01-28T19:14:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-interface-view-looks/158850/1 "2009-01-28T19:14:24Z")

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What are people doing these days for the “user interface” side of  
applications? I’m in the process of writing something, using a lot of  
CSS (good) but I keep getting the feel that this application (“rts”)  
would be better shown to the world in a flash format on the view end.  
Thoughts? Adobe AIR? Laszlo?

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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-interface-view-looks/158850/2 "2009-01-28T20:00:51Z")

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, sullivan.t [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> What are people doing these days for the “user interface” side of  
> applications? I’m in the process of writing something, using a lot of  
> CSS (good) but I keep getting the feel that this application (“rts”)  
> would be better shown to the world in a flash format on the view end.  
> Thoughts? Adobe AIR? Laszlo?

XHTML/CSS only requires on client-side plugin… a web browser. 😉

Robby

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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-interface-view-looks/158850/3 "2009-01-28T21:16:59Z")

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🙂 I know, I know.

I guess what I’ve done is hit that “wall” where I know my visual  
creativity sucks, and I need that polishing to refresh that old-  
fashioned “inner” desire to code my own on the side. Can’t do it like  
I used to, 15 years ago. By the time I get home, I’m exhausted from  
coding at “work” all day. 😛