2011/10/10 Oliver Gorwits <[email protected]>: > On 10/10/2011 16:37, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Anyway do you plan to port the interface to ExtJS 4 ? > > Maybe, but no definite plans. > > Here are a few thoughts I have right now... > > 1) the current interface works quite well I agree.
> 2) but there's too much logic in the templates so they need rewriting Code always need to be rewriting.. > 3) the license terms of ExtJS (2.x and 4.x) are evil (GPLv3) Don't want to launch a flamewar. > 4) is there another, similar, toolkit with a better license? I don't know, but I am afraid no. > 5) but not JQuery + 1001 plugins - I think this is messy I agree again. > 6) I'm not a UI person so it's a lot of effort for me to do I can help. > ExtJS 4 doesn't seem to offer much that would improve the interface, other > than perhaps the paging-less "infinite scroll" grid. Filters also can be integrated in column's headers (available also in 2.2) Anyway ExtJS 4 offers a cleaner abstraction of models, views and controller used inside the interface, so the mapping between the Catalyst components and ExtJS can probably be improved. > As the frontend's API (the AJAX/JSON bit) isn't documented, I don't expect > to have anyone cough up a new interface. But if any mock-ups with other JS > toolkits are forthcoming then there's a good chance I'll try to graft it on > if the features (filtering, etc) are equivalent. I wil try a simple test with ExtJS 4, and post it soo. regards, -- Julien Gilles. _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
