Definitely agree. And actually I'm in the process of converting my own widget library into "MochiKit style" with the goal of making it open source in two or three months. If someone is interested in creating something new, I'd only be happy to collaborate off-list on that.
Personally I started with Dojo about a year ago and eventually threw it out due to lack of documentation and weird behavior (bugs require a defined "correct" behavior). I've also looked quickly on YUI and ExtJS both of which seem well-documented and with nice API:s. Of course, they somewhat duplicate core MochiKit functionality. A bit unsure myself, though, if the world needs yet another JavaScript widget library. But perhaps there is some approach to it that feels fresh and "MochiKit" enough to merit the work. /Per On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are willing to share your code, I am sure others would be as > well. It would be nice to have a calendar widget and other common > things, but I don't know that there is a good solution out there as > far as a framework or whatnot. Having developed a largish application > in MochiKit (http://www.amazon.com/gp/gss/browse) I didn't come away > thinking that adding a lot more code for a framework was the really > right way to do things. (It feels like square peg, round hole.) I'd > rather stay as close as I reasonably can to DOM and such, using > MochiKit to smooth a few rough edges. > > On Feb 15, 12:57 pm, Chris Lee-Messer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > First, I want to thank Bob and the rest of the mochikit team for this > > great library. > > > > As a javascript neophyte, I chose Mochikit because it seemed to fit my > > way of thinking. I use python a great deal and mochikit with it's good > > documentation and clarity of organization made javascript more > > rational to me. > > > > Thanks to Mochikit, I was able to build an in-house ajax-type web > > applicaton from scratch and bring it live within a few weeks. > > > > Now I am looking to add more features and I would like to avoid > > spending time writing javascript widgets if it's not necessary. There > > are now quite a few popular widget libraries and I have looked at > > several of them (yui, dojo, jquery, etc.). Quite a few people have put > > together comparisons and reviews and I am not looking to repeat that > > discussion here. > > > > The question for me is how compatible the mindset of a library is with > > what I've done before. Some of the pythonista's like to say "Python > > fits my brain." Mochikit fits for me and ideally, any library that I > > add would do the same. > > > > I'm interested in finding out from mochikit users if they think that > > ne of the javascript widget libraries best fits the mochikit way of > > doing things. > > > > Alternatively, having a place--say on google code--with mochikit- > > based widgets would allow the community to gradually build up a set of > > mochikit-based widgets. > > > > Many thanks. > > -Chris > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
