If you want a lamp framework with reusable UI controls, maybe you should look at http://www.activegrid.com/ . I don't believe it supports modperl though. As far as I know, there isn't an easy high-level web design framework that lets designers achieve some of the better features you see today. There has been a lot of work to build javascript toolkits, but the problem I see with that is that 8% of browsers have javascript disabled. Well-designed websites have something to fall back on when javascript fails (see gmail for example).
Rhett On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Praveen Ray wrote: > 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 > >
