Hi ! 2010/8/10 Andreas Andreou <andy...@di.uoa.gr>
> Wrt jquery vs. others, i'd say jquery has won especially for your > "everyday webapp", i.e. the webapp that contains lots of html > pages and mostly serves just that - html pages. Incidentally, i believe > that that's where Tapestry is good at - creating the markup for those > pages. > > On the other end, there's the "one-page webapps". Those mostly > serve data in json or xml format and I believe jquery is not well > suited for those (yet) - interestingly [1] was written today and deals > with exactly this separation. > > To get back to Tapestry though, i tried today Robin's tapestry5-jquery > after first upgrading it for 5.2 - see [2], [3] > > Some tests in [3] are failing but i was anxious to use it so i ported the > tapestwitter app from prototype to jquery and it almost worked. Great ! We plan to move wooki from prototype to full jQuery too, and then improve T5.2 compatiblity of tapestry5-jquery Thanks for all your feedbacks ! Cheers, Christophe. > Both versions > have the exact same functionality and there's no trace of prototype in the > jquery version but there's still work to be done (zone updating in my 5.2 > upgrade has some issues - but perhaps i've just messed things up) > > Anyway, almost all the changes required were about rewriting custom > prototype code to jquery - see [4]. So, all in all, tapestry5-jquery > is definitely > worth a try > > [1] http://rmurphey.posterous.com/on-jquery-large-applications > [2] http://github.com/andyhot/tapestry5-clientresources/tree/tap-5.2 > [3] http://github.com/andyhot/tapestry5-jquery/tree/tap-5.2 > [4] > http://github.com/andyhot/tapestwitter/commit/44b5e8a49df4292eddb95499e2b234403b9c5066 > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 20:07, Ville Virtanen <ville.virta...@cerion.fi> > wrote: > > > > Portlet support and this Js fix are the most important new features. > > Especially the no-portlet support part stopped T5 in recent evaluation to > > build SAP front end and handling portal for multinational customer > running > > Oracle's weblogics. > > > > - Ville > > > > > > Howard Lewis Ship wrote: > >> > >> jQuery and Prototype have similar capabilities implemented in > >> extremely different ways. > >> > >> My intention is to factor out what T5 and the standard components use > >> into a thin wrapper library around either Prototype or jQuery, or > >> others (such as Ext, YUI, etc.). Name you favorite JS library and > >> you'll hear people call out their favorites you've never even heard > >> of! > >> > >> At this point, Tapestry has had enough JS exposure for me to identify > >> a minimum set of common operations. > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Pierce Wetter <pie...@paceap.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> On Aug 9, 2010, at 5:50 AM, Michael Gentry wrote: > >>> > >>>> A downside to Tapestry adopting JQuery at this point is it hurts those > >>>> of us who bit the bullet and used Prototype (since it comes with T5 > >>>> for "free"). It would make upgrading more time consuming. > >>>> Personally, I would prefer JQuery, but there is a cost involved in > >>>> using it now (additional bandwidth + memory footprint) or in the > >>>> future (conversion). > >>> > >>> Doesn't JQuery support a superset of Prototype? Does anyone know what > >>> the incompatibilities are? > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Howard M. Lewis Ship > >> > >> Creator of Apache Tapestry > >> > >> The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to > >> learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! > >> > >> (971) 678-5210 > >> http://howardlewisship.com > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Why-would-I-choose-JQuery--tp29360084p29390075.html > > Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > > > > > > -- > Andreas Andreou - andy...@apache.org - http://blog.andyhot.gr > Tapestry PMC / Tacos developer > Open Source / JEE Consulting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > -- Regards, Christophe Cordenier. Committer on Apache Tapestry 5 Co-creator of wooki @wookicentral.com
