On 21 May 2008, at 20:15, Pádraic Brady wrote:
It's really great news! And once the Dojo implementation is in place
as a template it's an open field for someone to step up and do
something similar for the lighter libraries like jQuery.
I wonder if this will actually happen long term?
I think you can essentially assume that most other JS/Ajax libraries
won't be used with ZF by the majority of developers once the new Zend-
Dojo stuff is released. There just won't be the same level of
documentation, mailing list or irc help on how to do stuff compared to
using Dojo.
Even if the relevant components are written for another JS library, to
adopt them you have to decide if they will be keep up with the
official Zend-Dojo components over the years that follow. Who will
maintain them and update them through ZF 2.0, 3.0 etc? This is the bit
that would worry me about adopting something other than Dojo for use
with ZF over the long term.
I'm planning on telling my developers at work that we need to migrate
to Dojo over the next 6 months. I had a look at the Dojo docs and at
first glance they don't look as comprehensive as we've been used to,
but I'm sure we'll manage.
Regards,
Rob...
