alt Hacker News"A view is a (visual) representation of its model. It would ordinarily highlight certain attributes of the model and suppress others. It is thus acting as a presentation filter."
https://web.archive.org/web/20090424042645/http://heim.ifi.u...
View and model are related, but neither is procedurally dominated by the other. The view is not a subroutine of the model, or vice versa.
They are related entities that communicate in order for the view to function as a representation of its model to the user, and for the model to be manipulated by the user.
To get the details I really recommend the Chatty paper. It is a bit hard to read, but delivers the goods.
Interesting, will check that out!
My working thesis is that UIs are basically video games. Just a gut feeling I can't really 100% put in words.
But essentially they're the same thing: Read input, update model, render view.