Long story short, I have been using both for almost as long as either of them have been around.
Basically, Prototype provides a wonderful OO abstraction facility and DOM manipulation sugar, while Ext gives you a full set of excellently designed UI components. Ext's OO model is not as robust as Proto's. My biggest message to you would be that they are _not_ mutually exclusive, and in fact work very well together. On 6/17/08, Franck PORCHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just got on Ext and I'am studying its API out of sheer curiosity because > I like its out-of-the-box UI facilities. > > It looks to me that Ext "borrowed" lots of things from Prototype, remixing > the whole thing under its own kind of syntactic sugar layer, somehow less > intuitive than Prototype. > > In a few words, and in whatever spare time you Core guys might have, what > is the story behind these 2 frameworks, if any, how do they compare in the > long run of javascript programming (if any kind of comparison was ever > attempted), and how do you foresee the future of both. > > Franck PORCHER > www / smartech / pf > > > > -- Ryan Gahl Manager, Senior Software Engineer Nth Penguin, LLC http://www.nthpenguin.com -- WebWidgetry.com / MashupStudio.com Future Home of the World's First Complete Web Platform -- Inquire: 1-920-574-2218 Blog: http://www.someElement.com LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangahl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" 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/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
