What about the missing Zone Manager? I have a number of scripts that need that. If it's missing, then he is partially correct in that a good deal of things will need to be re-written.
Norman Franke Answering Service for Directors, Inc. www.myasd.com On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo <thiag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:35:07 -0300, Lenny Primak <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us> > wrote: > >> You are technically correct on these points but the goals as stated in my >> post are to make a clean break with prototype. > > Agreed, but the way you wrote your e-mail it seemed that everything in > JavaScript needed to be rewritten from scratch because of the Tapestry > upgrade, something which isn't true, because most of the rewriting you did > was because you switched from Prototype and jQuery. You also said that > Tapestry 5.4 didn't include Prototype.js [1] and that > JavaScriptSupport.addScript() doesn't exist anymore [2], both statements > completely wrong. Not using them doesn't mean that Tapestry don't provide > them anymore. > > I'm just trying to calm down anyone who wants to upgrade from 5.2 or 5.3 to > 5.4 in the future and telling them they will *not* need to rewrite all > JavaScript from scratch, something that could be implied from your e-mail. > Just the parts that use code from tapestry.js like the T5 namespace and stuff > like ZoneManager will need to be rewritten. > > Backward compatibility is a very sensitive subject for Tapestry due to > historical reasons we just can't ignore. > > [1]: "there is completely new tapestry infrastructure and lack of prototype > et all, None of the JavaScript remains compatible." > > [2]: "Tapestry namespace is gone, as well as addScript interface" (in this > sentence, the Tapestry namespace is actually gone, but > JavaScriptSupport.addScript() is still present and working). > > -- > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >
