[BULK] - Re: [Catalyst] Preferred Ajax framework

[Mesdaq, Ali]

These are great suggestions from everyone with some good reasoning. A
friend at work is swearing by mochikit but when looking at mochikit and
jquery they look like the same thing. They just abstract javascript a
bit so its easier to write. So it would be pretty difficult to compare
unless you went through all the api's and compared them which I am NOT
going to do. Where does prototype fit into the scene? Is it the same as
jquery or is it higher or lower level? 

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Ali Mesdaq
Security Researcher
Websense Security Labs
http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Napiorkowski [mailto:jjn1056 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:39 PM
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: [BULK] - Re: [Catalyst] Preferred Ajax framework


--- "Mesdaq, Ali" <amesdaq at websense.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone new to the list and new to catalyst in general. I am 
> still trying to figure out best ways of using it in our environment 
> with least amount of pain. To do that I am trying to plan it out 
> before I start really getting my hands dirty.
> 
> My question is what is everyone's preferred Ajax framework? There are 
> tons of them out there but which one in your experience is the best. A

> little short reason would also be appreciated to see if my priorities 
> line up with your reasons.

Let the flame war begin now :)

I prefer Jquery.  I find it's syntax and way of thinking to really fit
in with the way I think as a perl programmer.  It's fairly lightweight
but you can add plugins for more features.  It's got a very active
community.

Of all the frameworks I played with, I got up to speed with Jquery the
quickest and wrote more code.  I also found it replaced almost all my
other libraries.  For example I often ended up adding the Behavior
library because I liked binding code to CSS style selectors rather than
put '...onclick' everywhere.  But this is built into Jquery.

It's got good support for form bindings and for JSON or serializing to
XML.  A lot of this is in plugins, so you can drop them when you don't
need them.

The docs are also pretty good.  I found trying to do anything in Dojo to
be really hard and I had to constantly study the source code to
understand how to do even very basic stuff.

I know the question was specifically about AJAX, but for me I'd rather
have a good toolkit that covers the bases with plugins as needed for the
rest, rather than to pick a choose lots of other libraries.  This way I
can subscribe to a single mailing list!

--john

> 
> Thanks,
> ------------------------------------------
> Ali Mesdaq
> Security Researcher
> Websense Security Labs
> http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com
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