I'd suggest that we put a replacement together before pulling the Dojo
plugin out of the distribution (I can help). We could at least
deprecate Dojo in the meantime.

-T.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So is the consensus so far that we should have a few, very simple
> tags, based on another framework, and take the dojo plugin out of
> struts?
>
> musachy
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One solution would be to provide the backing components for simple use-cases 
>> (like <sx:a...> and <sx:submit...> at least) and an integration with a 
>> couple JavaScript libraries, hopefully making it obvious enough that people 
>> could then implement their own back-end.
>>
>> With simple components updating on backing library updates is easier, and 
>> (in theory) it makes it easier to understand how users can extend or create 
>> additional tags to suit their needs.
>>
>> So I vote +1 for removing the existing Dojo plugin (+0 for deprecating) and 
>> +1 for creating the simplistic components and example integrations.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin
>>> To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org>
>>> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 9:34 AM
>>> I think Dave also had a JQuery plugin somewhere, isn't
>>> that right?
>>>
>>> musachy
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:49 AM, alvins
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > +1 to remove.
>>> >
>>> > Valid points raised by all. I personally use JQuery in
>>> my daily life and
>>> > have written my own tags to do these functions. I did
>>> previously look at the
>>> > effort required to update the current tags to the
>>> latest dojo but it would
>>> > be very time consuming and far easier to start from
>>> scratch.  I think a
>>> > large problem with the current dojo tags are that it
>>> is very complicated to
>>> > do simple things (dojo itself is complicated
>>> relatively).
>>> >
>>> > With JQuery it is quite easy to do most of the things
>>> mentioned so am not
>>> > sure on the benefits of tags. That said - if you made
>>> the tags powerful
>>> > enough - they can be quite useful in a large number of
>>> cases - however the
>>> > flipside is as you add functionality, maintainability
>>> becomes an issue.
>>> >
>>> > btw. If anybody is interested in some JQuery tags I
>>> could start a plugin..?
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