Michael, I'm still using my Radio Shack Color Computer with 4K of RAM, an audio cassette tape for data storage and no monitor, which cost me $525 in 1982.
Perhaps I would be more productive if I upgraded to 16K of RAM? :o) -----Original Message----- From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 12:02 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion and AJAX choices That's an interesting anecdote, however I don't see how it relates to the topic at hand. When I build new apps I don't use my old pre jQuery codebase anymore. I've updated to use jQuery (or equiv). Why? Because it's more flexible, upgradeable, backward compatible and scalable. And for me that's enough. I also no longer use my Commodore 64 or wear acid washed jeans. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:31 AM, <> wrote: > > >>Why reinvent the wheel over and over > > Please explain why writing code BEFORE the equivalent exists in some open > source library is REinventing the wheel. > > Example: > When I first looked for a good online editor I could find no one able to > clean up MS Word crap. > So I designed my own, about 10 years ago. > Then came FCKeditor. It has a MSWord paste function, but it was optional > and must be selected by the user. > C'mon which user will do it and even know that MSWord code needs to be > "cleaned"? > So Why should I switch for FCKEditor? > > By the time, I had developped a way styles could be selected in the editor > using clear natural language names instead of class names. FCK editor did'nt > have it, so I kept my own editor. > > Now FCK editor offers the same possibility, but still no way to force > MSWord clean up transparently on every cut'n paste operation. > At least it didn't the last time I had a look at it. > So I'm still using my own online editor, and I'm still 100% happy with it. > > Ah, and last but not the least, my editor is 100% integrated in my CMS ie: > it can generate links to internal pages of the user's site by names of > logical elements instead of having to cut'n paste the actual url. > Again, this functionality may exists in some more recent stuff, but I can't > spend all my time looking for something that will do the same thing I've > been using for years and I'm happy with. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344775 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
