>I am worried that if the limited mind-share of the development group gets
>dispersed to take on the huge issue of an IDE, then this toolkit will
never
>live up to its potential. It's going to take a big effort to wring out the
>remaining bugs and inconsistencies. Give the world a solid toolkit first,
>is my plea.
That's my opinion as well. For one, you people doing the development are not
enough
to do both things at the same time, DynAPI and IDE, and one or the other
will lag
behind, probably the DynAPI, and I for one would hate to see it ground to a
halt because
of another, undoubtedly great but to early, idea.
Like myself and several others said on this list, documentation is the
weakest "part" of
the DynAPI, the sheer number of places, examples, tutorials and assorted
docs, not always
up to date, that a newbie has to go through just to have a working knowledge
of the DynAPI
to be able to do something with it, is a bit daunting. I had the good
fortune of
discovering Dan's DynDuo tutorials early on before DynAPI2 so it was fairly
easy to keep up
with the changes and new stuff, but someone entering this brave new world
would have to
be really persistent to be able to start working with it.
Pascal's Developer's reference is quite the handy tool for us people that
already familiar
with DynAPI inner workings, but we're still missing a solid property/method
reference, something
similar to the PHP online manual.
I know, I know, talking is easy... :) and I not really the person to be able
to do it, because
of my limited knowledge of advanced Javascript coding. But I'm willing to
compile all documentation
and build a online reference. We can start by compiling all methods and
properties for each module
file into a common document, and then start to define each one.
You know as well as I do, that even the greenest javascript newbie can get
stuff working as long
as there are good references available, and that will go a long way to make
the DynAPI much much
more popular that it is now.
best,
NunoF
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