[Perl-org-patches] JavaScript, jQuery and widgets

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 17:05:37 Leo Lapworth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To help with maintainability / portability (server side) is there any
> objection to using jQuery on the *.perl.org sites?
> 

I think it's a great idea. I like jQuery a lot, but haven't really used any 
other JavaScript libraries (or "JS frameworks" as people call them). 

> The site is already using the Google Calender widget on the events page.
> 
> I'm mostly thinking of dropping in jFeed feed to replace the XML::RSS
> parser, this would mean one less thing to maintain (how ever simple) on the
> server.
> 
> Without wanting to start a mass discussion, I feel modern websites should
>  be able to expect JavaScript, and these are non-core features, but before
>  I implement it I wanted to make sure it's not going to then be removed.
> 

Well, I would prefer if the web-site depended on JS as little as possible. If 
you want to add JS stuff to enhance the user experience while degrading 
gracefully, that's fine. But which XML::RSS functionality do you want to 
replace?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> Thanks
> 
> Leo
> 

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