[Catalyst] Spending time with Catalyst (slightly OT)

Shlomi Fish shlomif at iglu.org.il
Sun Sep 10 19:23:08 CEST 2006


On Sunday 10 September 2006 18:45, Matthieu Codron wrote:
> Roman a écrit :
> > Check jQuery. It's better than all of the other libraries combined.
> > Reminds me of Catalyst ways as well. Its a framework, but it's not
> > limiting, you can do whatever you want your own ways. And it's
> > extendibles by plugins. Just released a stable version 1. Strong
> > community as well. Mailing list gets 100-200 message a day.
> >
> > B10m wrote:
> >> * Matthieu Codron <matthieu at codron.org> [2006-09-09 14:27:45+0200]
> >>
> >>> I routinely develop Catalyst stuff for my own purposes and I find out
> >>> that I am spending much more time actually working on the client side
> >>> stuff ( HTML, CSS and Javascript ) than on the server side.
> >>> Have some of you the same feeling? Ever since playing with Ajax stuff,
> >>> I have the firm impression that while I now have a decent framework on
> >>> the server side, the client side is now where I spend most of my
> >>> development time ...
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> Recently, I found myself pondering that too. I now too spend (too)
> >> much time on client side stuff. I've been messing with the Yahoo!
> >> User Interface Library (yui)[1] and found it quite exciting,
> >> especially in combination with the (unofficial) Extensions Library[2].
> >>
> >> It's not as hyped as del.icio.us and Prototype, yet it also gets the
> >> job done nicely. Might be worth looking into.
> >>
> >>   1. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
> >>   2. http://jackslocum.com/yui/
>
> I knew about YUI but I kind of overlooked it ... As for jQuery, you
> still need to code a lot, isn't it?
>
> Thanks a lot, and keep the good tips coming ;-)

Seeing this thread, I decided to start concentrating links to JS libraries in 
the CMS wikia:

http://cms.wikia.com/wiki/JavaScript_Libraries

Please fill in the other libraries that I missed.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish
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