That's fantastic news, Mattias - great job! On 1/3/07, Mattias Hising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Today we released a new version of PokerRoom.com, the worlds 3rd > largest poker site. The site has approximately 100,000 - 200,000 > visits a day and at peak we serve poker games to 25,000 - 30,000 > users. > > The new front-end platform is running on PHP 5 with the Smarty > Template Engine (http://smarty.php.net) for templating, presentation > plugins and front-end caching. The old version of PokerRoom used a lot > of legacy javascript code and maintenance was hell. In order to avoid > this we started looking for a javascript library that was: > > 1. Small in order to decrease download-time and minimize used bandwidth > 2. Easy to start using > 3. Well documented > 4. Had a big community > 5. Were extensible > 6. Where fun to use and easy to teach PHP-developers. > > We evaluated jquery, dojo, mochikit and prototype+scriptaculous. In > the end we did not find any library/framework that could match the > jquery library. The community (this list mainly) has been a treasure > for a lot of answers and we have had very nice support by Christian > "Tablesorter" Bach as well. > > We use jquery for > > - Client Validation (input verification and ajax-calls for business > verification) (http://www.pokerroom.com/signup.php) > - Inline Popups (for avoiding popups to 90% and not break processes) > plugin: thickbox > - Ajax-posting of forms (send message, create gift voucher) plugin: form.js > - Rewriting urls (add external logging and create a popup (the 10%)) > - Generate dynamic content (validation ) using Michael Gearys DOM-creator > - Sorting tables with Maestro Bachs Tablesorter plugin. > - A lot more > > We will start using jquery more heavily after this release. Thanks to > the community for discussing and creating this great piece of library. > > http://www.pokerroom.com > http://www.casinoroom.com > > Mattias Hising (http://www.hising.net) > Front-End Architect PokerRoom.com / bwin Games (http://www.bwin.com) > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ >
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