-- Rob Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 08:35 PM +0100): > On 21 May 2008, at 20:15, P draic 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?
There is talk on #zftalk already by a number of developers who are interested in doing so. :-) > 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. Any integration other than Dojo will be part of extras, and will need to be maintained by the community. Hopefully, this will mean that if one developer is unable to continue, another can pick up where they left off. But it is a good point to keep in mind, particularly if your company is in need of official support channels. > 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. The 1.0 docs have been greatly improved, and they have also added API documentation. You should also look at Dojo Campus (http://dojocampus.org/), which has a lot of concrete use cases _with_ code to demonstrate the various features of Dojo. Between the official documentation, API docs, and Dojo Campus, there's a lot of material. Additionally, both O'Reilly and Pragmatic Programmers are publishing books in the next month covering Dojo. Basically, if there is a time to learn it, now is that time. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
