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"I feel a gradual move in that direction is the way towards eventually replacing Prototype & Scriptaculous with jQuery, and making it possible to cleanly support other JavaScript foundations." On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 15:32, Inge Solvoll <inge.tapes...@gmail.com> wrote: > If this is correct, that jQuery has around 40% market share and prototype > around 9%, isn't it a major popularity drawback for T5 to be using > prototype > as its javascript core? > > Right now, potential new users could be thinking: > > "Hey, T5 uses an outdated, boring and poorly supported javascript > framework. > Why? Is it an outdated, boring and poorly supported framework itself`?". > > With jQuery in the core instead of prototype, it would be an entirely > different story. One of the biggeste problems for T5 today is that it is > considered alternative in many ways. Tiny (small user base), poorly > supported, poorly documented, non-standard (not being Spring or JSF). > Unfair > in many ways, but considered true by many people. The community is making > an > effort these days to solve some of these issues (documentation, marketing), > but it might actually be a bigger win to just integrate with very popular > tools, and let their light reflect on us. jQuery being one of the shiniest > and most logical ones to integrate with. > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Chris Mylonas <ch...@mrvoip.com.au> wrote: > > > Awesome contrib! > > I'll hopefully find some time to work with it this month - have you got > any > > publicly accessible demos of it in action? > > > > On 06/08/2010, at 4:46 AM, Robin Komiwes wrote: > > > > > I might be not objective since I'm in love with jQuery, but imho, > > choosing > > > jQuery over others will avoid you to have a *big* technical debt. > > > > > > You might be interested by this reading: > > > > http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/03/26/jquery-triumphant-march-to-success/ > > > > > > For your tab component, what about this one: > > http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/ > > > It's skinnable, customizable, and it should be easy to integrate it > into > > > tapestry5 (and to contribute it to > > http://github.com/got5/tapestry5-jquery;)) > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Kalle Korhonen > > > <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > >> I have an older T4 app that I'm going to upgrade to T5. It's not a > > >> full RIA but nevertheless a fairly fancy, interactive web app with > > >> drag & drop, ajax file uploads etc. The UI of the app was based on > > >> Prototype and Dojo 0.4.3 which served me well at the time despite of > > >> being a bit on the heavy side. I haven't really used JQuery in > > >> production apps yet but I wouldn't mind switching but if I do, I don't > > >> want to drag Prototype around with it. There are T5 integration libs > > >> available both for a newer version of Dojo and for JQuery. It might be > > >> marginally easier to adjust the existing Javascript for Dojo than > > >> having to rewrite everything with JQuery but as said, I'm fine with > > >> the cost. Performance always matters, so load times, execution > > >> performance, ability to use CDN etc. all matter. I don't mind filing > > >> an occasional issue, but I don't want to get sucked into seriously > > >> having to debug and maintain another add-on library so I'd prefer > > >> something relatively stable even if it didn't have all the latest > > >> bells and whistles. Of ready-made components, only a good, skinnable, > > >> customizable and extensible tab component is relevant to me. Now, why > > >> would I choose JQuery over the other choices? I'd really love to hear > > >> comments from people who've had experience of multiple Javascript > > >> libraries and have made a switch to JQuery or perhaps gone the other > > >> way. > > >> > > >> Kalle > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > >> > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > > > -- Dmitry Gusev AnjLab Team http://anjlab.com
