Some very preliminary comments on Magritte

Following a suggestion made by Esteban Lorenzano, I will try to describe the objects constituting the laboratory book model by using Magritte. I gave it a look, reading some of the available documentation, and playing a little bit with it also.

I liked very much its main idea, at least as I understood it: a protocol for describing objects, such that the resulting descriptions can be used to build automatically a lot of related stuff (given the adequate tools to do so): both Web and desktop user interface, reports, persistence, etc..
Wrt Web user interface, it seems that Magritte integrates well with Seaside.
I also liked the object description protocol, seems simple and powerful at the sime time.

On the downside, I felt the support given by Magritte, in its current version 3, to build desktop user interfaces using Morphic, as very limited, and also somewhat unsatisfactory. Even a simple form generated by Magritte looks far from nice.

This is a problem since I intend the laboratory book as a desktop application.
I will try to enhance the Morphic support given by Magritte. The results, soon in this blog.