Can anyone recommend a GUI creation tool for building DHTML web applications using AJAX to communicate with a web service backend? I would like you to not have to deal with HTML development, sorting / unpacking data, checking browser compatibility, etc. The tool must have a library of widgets that can be placed in the application and connected to functions, and be extensible to define custom widgets. Of course, free and / or open source is preferable, but I would also consider proprietary tools.
To what extent does the choice of a GUI tool affect the platform or language that I will use for the backend? If the graphical interface just calls the web service, then I should be able to use something on the server side to provide this interface, but maybe some gui-side tools use a proprietary data exchange format that requires specific server-side code?
Edit: I don’t need a widget that can be dragged, I want the IDE to make it easy to create gui (i.e.RAD tool).
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