Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Is this project dead?

[Andrew G. <an...@zo...>]

David King wrote:

> There are PHP errors all over the web site.  No word from any project 
> admin.  Last stable release was 2.5.7 in January 2002.  Latest 
> development release was 3.0 Beta 1 in June 2003.  Virtually no 
> activity on this mailing list since Octorber 2003.  What happened that 
> killed all activity on this project?

I have a few theories.

    * The administrators of the project seem to have all moved on and
      there doesn't seem to have been any effort made to find new
      volunteers to administer the project.

    * Genuine cross-platform JavaScript gurus are not as common as you
      might think.

    * There is a huge learning curve with DynAPI. DynAPI has an elegant
      object model that makes it much easier to build complex web
      applications. However its focus on supporting old browsers with
      strange event handling mechanisms (Netscape 4.7) means that parts
      of it are far more complicated than they would be if it only
      modern browsers were supported. This complexity means that you
      can't just take a JavaScript programmer off the street, ask them
      to work on the DynAPI core and expect anything to happen in a hurry.

>
> What alternatives are there?  domapi (http://www.domapi.com/) is the 
> most promising one I can find.

Another alternative that I recently came across is a thing called 
ProtoLayer (www.protolayer.com), which seems to have been inspired by 
the DynAPI approach. It's not open source, but it is free for commercial 
use. I must confess that I haven't actually used it myself yet, but it 
looks interesting.


Andrew

>
> Thanks,
> -David