Re: [Fofredux-devel] prototype vs. jQuery

[Benjamin S. <bst...@gm...>]

And, it's always pretty trivial to make JS unobtrusive -- you just
attach a callback on page load to go through and muck with the bare
bones DOM to make it do what you want.   Super easy, and it even
allows you to do things like prototype in greasemonkey / etc.

For that might matter, you might want to consider the "API" that your
DOM is going to be exposing to greasemonkey developers, and possibly
even document your DOM's "API" as a way to writing FOFr "plugins" --
write a greasemonkey driver with some functions that can be used to
get all posts, etc, and then distribute that to your users.

--Benjy

On 8/23/06, Andrew Turner <ajt...@hi...> wrote:
> Good finds - these are worth looking at. I had unofficially chosen
> Prototype due to its large base, stability, and my familiarity with
> it. However, no JS coding has been done yet, so we can look at these
> options.
>
> I think a big thing to think about when evaluating these is how to
> make them "unobtrusive" - graceful degradation to non-JS browsers,
> clean code/maintenance.
>
> If anyone on the mailing list has any feedback on JS libraries they've
> used, nows the time to speak up! :)
>
> Andrew
>
> On 8/23/06, Evan Roth <eva...@gm...> wrote:
> > hey guys,
> >
> > on a project at work, we are using the yahoo library for some major
> > rehauls to an old VB app, which we are doing as an ajax web frontend
> > to jsp's with struts framework.  (sorry for the buzzword overflow)
> >
> > in any case, yahoo provides some killer ui stuff, which is a cakewalk
> > to implement as well as their own ajax connection libraries.  i'd also
> > imagine that yahoo's stuff would be more supported over the long run,
> > since it's got the commercial appeal.
> >
> > the 2 main ui things (a seperate discussion, but worth mentioning)
> > that i love there are the treeview, which would be perfect for an
> > expandable/collapsable feeds list and the drag and drop capablities of
> > everything (see flickr or my.yahoo.com for some ideas)
> >
> > so yahoo presents a 3rd possibilities, with the chance of using some
> > nice frontend stuff in the future.
> >
> > /evan
> >
> > On 8/23/06, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Andrew,
> > >     I know we decided on prototype for a javascript/ajax lib, and that's
> > > fine.  Just wanted to throw this out there as an alternative.  It seems
> > > to be getting good reviews among even hard core prototype users, which I
> > > find interesting.   The demos for the Interface plugin are nice.(see
> > > last link)
> > >
> > > http://jquery.com/blog/2006/08/20/why-jquerys-philosophy-is-better/
> > > http://jquery.com/
> > > http://interface.eyecon.ro/
> > >
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