On 3/28/06, Alexandru Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joe, I mostly agree with you. What I've been trying to say is that most of > the user will not like to have a big dependency on Dojo for simple > functionality like a calendar component.
The "size" of the dependency on Dojo is _completely_ up to you. Unlike the other DHTML toolkits out there, you can very easily build a custom profile that includes only what you need, and almost none of the code you don't need. The minimal profile of Dojo is very small. Right now, it looks like WW uses the kitchen sink profile, which is pretty much everything Dojo has. I can understand why you would not want to load all of that for just a calendar. But you don't have to. That is the beauty of the Dojo profile system. -- Martin Cooper And I agree, this is my case too. I > would prefere something small and working almost everywhere. We have even > been thinking to add a new AJAX theme based on lighter solutions (a la > prototype). And if this will work, I would almost sure vote for removing > the > dependency on Dojo. But this is way to personal :-). > > ./alex > -- > .w( the_mindstorm )p. > > > On 3/28/06, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I had very bad experiences with Dojo so far, and I brought this into > > >discussion on ww forums. I wouldn't encourage moving to Dojo, because > the > > >browser support is still lacking, and from the feeling we got from > their > > ml > > >some of the old browsers, that are still used (f.e. IE 5.5) will > > be missing > > >in the next versions. > > > > If you believe http://thecounter.com/stats/2006/March/browser.php, IE > > 5.5 only has 2% market share. I wouldn't blame a project for not > > spending a large amount of resources supporting that. > > > > That said, I think we should try to keep the JS libraries as > > pluggable as possible. But maybe it's impossible to bundle valuable > > features and still do that -- I was really surprised at how many > > dependencies Webwork accepted, and I'm still trying to work out for > > myself whether that's better in the long run. I think the Struts > > community philosophy was very conservative about that, but it may do > > us well to challenge that philosophy. > > > > Still, having roots in that philosophy, again my inclination is to > > try to be more library agnostic. Can that work? > > > > Joe > > > > -- > > Joe Germuska > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://blog.germuska.com > > > > "You really can't burn anything out by trying something new, and > > even if you can burn it out, it can be fixed. Try something new." > > -- Robert Moog > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
