Note that as far as I know, MochiKit isn't actively developed anymore. Google's Closure has a fork of MochiKit's Deferred's, which seems to incorporate some of Dojo's code as well.
http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/source/browse/trunk/third_party/closure/goog/mochikit/async/ On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberst...@tavendo.de> wrote: > Jasper, Allen, Richard, > > thanks all for the pointers. I am confused now;) > > No, seriously, I need to _test_ those libs, to see what they actually do. > > I.e. I suspect the "new Dojo Deferreds" with "then" return something > different than the broken "then" in jQuery 1.5. > > This is all messy, personally, I want the Twisted semantics in JS, but want > to choose something "mainstream" to make it easy for users to adopt. > > Well. I'll give me an hour tomorrow to look into Dojo and Mochikit. > > > On 25.08.11 02:01, "Richard Wall" <m-li...@the-moon.net> wrote: > > On 25 August 2011 00:30, Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberst...@tavendo.de> > wrote: > <snip> >> I am still wondering why they called the other stuff "then()" when it's >> not >> then, but "also()" >> and "pipe()" is the real <then> ;) > > I agree. I had the same frustration a few months ago and various > Twisted people pointed out missing features in Jquery deferred: > * http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2011-June/024146.html > > Mochikit is the best (and original) JS port of deferred..Dojo and > Google Closure both credit Mochikit (and Twisted) in their source > code. I'm planning to revert back to it. > > I guess it would be useful / constructive to compile a list of the > weaknesses in the jquery / commonjs deferred API and the reasons and > use cases for the Twisted deferred API. > Perhaps they can be persuaded to evolve towards the Twisted API in time. > > -RichardW. > > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
