[Catalyst] [Task] Building a better JavaScript (AJAX) toolkit

[Sebastian Riedel]

Am 21.12.2005 um 08:24 schrieb Brandon Black:

> On 12/20/05, Stephen Adkins <spadkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Consider the Dojo Toolkit.
>>
>>    http://dojotoolkit.org/
>>    http://dojo.jot.com/WikiHome
>>
>> It has an active community, and it is developing UI widgets like  
>> crazy.
>>
>> Rather than the Scriptaculous/Prototype combination, I am
>> watching the development of DojoToolkit/MochiKit.
>> It is clearly evolving rapidly, but it's where I'd get involved if  
>> I had the
>>  time to invest in developing a JavaScript/Web 2.0 framework.
>>
>
> Wow.  Obviously still needs more development effort to smooth out some
> of the rough edges, but Wow.  With a little polish and a little more
> performance, they've got just about everything to write a regular
> graphical interface like a local app would have, or at least very near
> it.
>
> Now we just need someone with more brains than sense to write
> something like Catalyst::View::DojoTk, and we can go back to thinking
> like application developers instead of browser hackers :)

Yes Dojo is nice, but it's (not yet) a complete toolkit, and it  
doesn't work at all without JavaScript.
But they have a great concept of "fallbacks" to handle this issue.

     http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/fast_widget_authoring.html

It would especially work well with (the not yet released) HTML::Widget.

Another issue i see are quick hacks, Dojo is big (really BIG!) and  
widgets are quite abstract.
So imo both have their place, MochiKit for the quick hacks and Dojo  
for the complicated rock solid stuff.

And all i want for MochiKit is more visual effects for those quick  
hacks.


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sebastian