Hello people Trying to look for the *best* perl web framework out there and looking for suggestions. I've looked at Catalyst, Jifty and bunch of other frameworks. My biggest gripe about these web frameworks is the lack of reusable UI controls aka ASP.Net. One reason ASP.Net has caught on so quickly is the availability of inexpensive and slick third party UI controls. Most geeks make lousy web designers and would rather fiddle with the back end server code than CSS and javascript. Is there a LAMP framework offering even close to what ASP.Net offers in terms of UI development? Look at http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Controls/Examples/Default/DefaultCS.aspx for inspiration.
In my opinion, lack of rich controls is the biggest drawback of LAMP frameworks. We as geeks might not like to hear about it but average manager at a big corporation is still sold by slick presentation and not cool back-end technology. Maybe it's time for mod-perl geeks to get together and come up with an uniform API for web controls that can then be used by others to develop reusable controls. -Praveen
