Andreas Hartmann wrote: > Hi Lenya devs, > > during the last months, the desire for a more "modern" user interface > has become a major point of critique. The review in iX magazine > mentioned our "outdated" GUI, and some customers have put a GUI update > quite high on their priority list. > As far as a i know this is especially related to the "look" of the GUI. In that case we need some good "designer" to overwork the whole GUI:
> > It can't be denied that AJAX offers some options to simplify the user's > life. Of course there are other technologies to add more interaction > capabilities to the client, but IMO we should stick to the W3C standards > as close as possible. > > Is anyone in the developer community familiar with different AJAX > approaches and maybe could recommend a framework? Dojo ships with > Cocoon, but I have to admit that I have no idea if it's the right tool > for our requirements. Another question is if we should consider > migrating the GUI to an AJAX framework completely, or just add some bits > here and there where HTML forms aren't appropriate. > I personally think you should use ajax with care, where it really make sense (e.g. adding a user you can check whether the user with the chosen userid already exists (but that did not prevent you from checking it again as soon as the user will be created)). I worked with prototype (http://www.prototypejs.org/) / scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/) for some smaller projects and made good experience with those frameworks (I also had a look at yahoo user interface but that is quite a huge library). However I can not really compare those libraries to Dojo. Jann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
