On 6/11/07, Andy Matthews wrote: > FYI, while jQuery doesn't do this out of the box, there is a plugin to manage > the back > button.
Sweet! Gotta have that back button handled, neh! Are you using the plugin? Does it use a hidden iframe, or another method? I like the fact that the stuff is sorta "baked in" with dojo... from the beginning it was meant to be robust, which is a different philosophy than the small but pluggable- "better" or "worse" depends on the scale of the app, somewhat. I wasn't aware of the Accessibility aspect of dojo, which I think is HUGE (it sorta peeves me that Accessibility takes a back seat in so many places, which is ironic, as I've put it in the back seat of 90% of what I've done.). Thanks, Sandra! You'd think a fan would know that! =-P Another exciting aspect is the Internationalization stuff- again, not so much a plugin (but you can exclude it) as a concept- It's important to the library as a whole, you know? I dig that. Themes are slowly making their way out the door... It's just really, really, robust. Tests for just about everything, etc.. Part of the deal, I guess, is the bit about using ORMs vs. knowing SQL. It's "a good thing" to know SQL, even tho it can be startlingly easy to slap together a site now without knowing any. It's still awful hard to do some stuff via ORM alone, tho, so... same applies to JS, in a manner. There has just been a /ton/ of thought (and debate, etc.) put into dojo, with things in mind that I think a lot of the other libraries are just now sorta getting to the point of needing/thinking about. It's always tougher when you didn't foresee something getting "so big", if you read me. Script scope separation, for instance. Does "your lib" handle script separation? (<--question directed toward potential library pickers, not Andy specifically. :). Does "your library" have ways to specify events are connected just once? Does "your library" have a robust event system? Will "your library" grow with your needs, to the point of off-line accessibility? Comet? And do it pretty cohesively? Do all your plugins play nice with each other? Do /you/ (the end user) have to verify that when you add plugin X, it doesn't mess up plugin Y? * * * With such an nice, open subject, I figured I'd throw these questions/ considerations out there, keep the good info flowing, etc.. And it's a slight battle of the libraries, which I think is good, no? =] PS- dojo's api seems clear enough to me. I don't have any problems with the source, at least. Pretty easy to see what does what, etc.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280697 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
