Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Is this project dead?

[Andrew Gillett]

David King wrote: There are PHP errors all over the web site.  No word from any project admin.  Last stable release was 2.5.7 in January 2002.  Latest development release was 3.0 Beta 1 in June 2003.  Virtually no activity on this mailing list since Octorber 2003.  What happened that killed all activity on this project? I have a few theories. The administrators of the project seem to have all moved on and there doesn't seem to have been any effort made to find new volunteers to administer the project. Genuine cross-platform _javascript_ gurus are not as common as you might think. There is a huge learning curve with DynAPI. DynAPI has an elegant object model that makes it much easier to build complex web applications. However its focus on supporting old browsers with strange event handling mechanisms (Netscape 4.7) means that parts of it are far more complicated than they would be if it only modern browsers were supported. This complexity means that you can't just take a _javascript_ programmer off the street, ask them to work on the DynAPI core and expect anything to happen in a hurry. What alternatives are there?  domapi (http://www.domapi.com/) is the most promising one I can find. Another alternative that I recently came across is a thing called ProtoLayer (www.protolayer.com), which seems to have been inspired by the DynAPI approach. It's not open source, but it is free for commercial use. I must confess that I haven't actually used it myself yet, but it looks interesting. Andrew Thanks, -David