Hello Yesterday, I spent some time in selecting a javascript library which is meant to aid me in making more fancy websites.. I'm targeting a generic 'search and relate' tool to begin with (rudiments can be found in 'speeltuin').
I had some experience with prototype/scriptaculous, and sarissa, but those were decided for me. Sarissa actually already made it to the mmbase distro, because it is used in the richtext application's 'kupu editor', but also the 'datatype validation' script of /mmbase/validation uses a bit of sarissa to do ajax and xpath. Anyhow, I expect that for real nifty user interfaces we'll need to introduce a more profound dependency. I'd propose to ship one of them in the /mmbase directory, for general useage, especially for other pages inside /mmbase. My question now is whether people have some (educated) preference. I now considered the following: -sarissa. Provides ajax, xpath, xstlt.. No effects. Now under /mmbase/validation/sarissa, but can easily be dropped. -prototype/scriptaculous: Provides ajax, css-selectors, effects. -jquery/jquery ui: Provides ajax, css/xpath-selectors, effects, plugins -extjs: Provides a complete windowing environment -echo2: I think this makes you implement your stuff in java -gwt: similar to echo2, I suppose. I'm leaning towards jquery now, and ship it as /mmbase/jquery, and make free use of it, in mmbase generic (and specific) editors, admin pages, examples and so on. It seems a good mix of clean-code, good documentation, ease of use, popularity and a good balance between e.g sarissa which is a bit too low level, and things like echo2, which are too high level for my taste (and therefore perhaps a bit too intrusive). I am no expert in the field. I even may have mispresented one of the above. There are couple of other alternatives as well, which I did not even look at. Undoubtly people have their opinions about the matter, and I'd love to hear about it. Michiel -- mihxil' http://meeuw.org nl_NL eo_XX en_US _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list Developers@lists.mmbase.org http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
