Clearly +1 for tatami/Dojo. With an active developer base on tatami and no doubt about the Dojo developer base we are safe. The other projects are not advanced enough and working from scratch is crazy.
Ludovic Miguel Bento wrote: > First of all, hi again! > > I'm developing the collaborative business drawing framework to integrate on > XWiki and currently need some feedback. > > In order to provide the abillity of drawing SVG/VML/Canvas objects in the > browser, this framework has many options that i shall explain: > * > A) Tatami, the GWT wrapper of the Dojo Toolkit library ( > http://code.google.com/p/tatami/)* > > This is by far the most used option, and the reasons are somewhat obvious. > > - It wraps up the dojo toolkit code for GWT providing access to the GFX > package's functionalities and thus giving us the possibility to draw > objects > in SVG/VML/Canvas. This is a very important point as it provides support > for > Safari with canvas objects and IE with VML objects, accomplishing thus a > better product. > - Provides the creation of basic and advanced drawing figures from > squares to paths with drag and drop, scale, rotate and parameters > specification. > - It has the biggest active developer's base, having a lot of activity on > their forum (http://groups.google.com/group/tatami) > - It gives us efficiency and usability by being well developed. > Personally, this is a key point for me as i've seen a lot of svg drawing > boards slow and badly done. > > A demo of the tatami can be found here ( > http://tatami.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/site/samples/TatamiDemo/index.html ) > but don't mind the slow reaction of the site as it's using aloot of dojo > objects(Fisheye, etc) and it's runing from the svn. After some coding with > it, i realized it can indeed be very fast. > > IMHO, this looks like the winner.. we should use this wrapper for the job > and if necessary develop some new items on it to provide us the required > functionalities, which will also be needed in any other option. > > *B) JSGraphic's library ( > http://www.walterzorn.com/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm) > > *As it's the case with Dojo Toolkit, this library can be used in GWT by > including a wrapper on the project. The downsides of this alternative are > obvious as, for example, it doesn't support's drag and drop or any > interaction with the objects and is a one man project. > > It's allways good to have options heh! > > *C) Develop an API fit to the job* > > As this option might bring some (? small) benefits in efficiency and > additional funcionalities, on the other hand, it's slowed by the time > required to develop the API knowing that there are some fully functional > good options out there. > > Talking about functionalities, Tatami provides every svg object and property > that i remind me of and it's efficiency and usability are high, so there > shouldn't be much more to do in this area. (besides implementating screw > transformations, which aren't included in the latest realease of Tatami :) > > > In the next days i'll be building a propotype of a drawing API so please > give me your opinions. > > My vote : +1 Tatami > > Best Regards, > Miguel Bento. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
