I agree that it would be nice to be able to swap out the JS implementation because I am not a great fan of Prototype. Personally I would go with YUI or GWT. However I believe Prototype is pretty much ingrained into T5 :(
Just my 2c worth! Toby 2008/10/30 Onno Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I just stumbled upon this link that lets you test the performance of > selectors in different Javascript libraries: > > http://jamesdonaghue.com/static/peppy/profile/slickspeed/ > > Prototype doesn't look very good from that tests and that's pretty much in > line with my own feeling after having used JQuery for a while before being > introduced to Prototype through Tapestry 5. This made me wonder if it would > be possible to write a plugin for Tapestry that overrides the default > Javascript library or wether Prototype is hardwired into the Tapestry > internals? > > I haven't researched it in any way yet, but I'm aware that some mixins, > client side validation and maybe even some core components would stop > working since they depend on Prototype. Is there anything else that depends > on it? Anything that cannot be overridden in a plugin? > Could the client-side behaviors be abstracted away so that multiple > implementations can be used? > > Just wondering if this would be possible and what it would entail, since > tapestry 5 already allows so many other things to be configured, overridden > or replaced. > > > regards, > > Onno >
