On 06/21/2012 12:53 PM, Richard Harding wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Gavin Panella wrote: >> At the time I'm not sure that YUI knew how to make a proper YUI >> widget. I think the docs have since improved, and YUI itself has >> figured itself out, though I still think widgets are really difficult
This point about documentation is true. It did not exist. It does now. I recommend the "YUI 3 Cookbook". It does explain YUI's way of solving problems. ... > YUI does some magic for you so you do have to learn/understand how things > owrk. initializer is stacked in the inheritance chain, renderUI isn't (for > example). So this can go under the 'complicated' part, but it's part of > learning a library. > > Plugins are a huge win for reusable bits and I don't think we stop at > plugins enough for many things we do. I agree. I also used the term "widget" when I really meant something more than a namespace. The bug tag completer does not need to be a widget, but it must be more than an namespace to be reusable. We cannot autocomplete tags on +filebug and advanced search until it learns how to enhance to DOM to provide reusable functionality. ... > I'm really hoping to be able to try to help with some of this and if anyone > ever needs a hand with any of this please feel free to ping me, assign me > as a reviewer to JS, etc. I know I've worked with JC a lot lately to help > review his cleanup of things like the picker code. It's taken a little bit > longer, but once you learn the YUI library bits the code ends up smaller > and much more flexible. This is exactly what we need to do if we ever want a library. Our code is not flexible enough to be reused. It is very difficult to extend even inside Launchpad. -- Curtis Hovey http://launchpad.net/~sinzui
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