It is difficult to choose the right one. I've tried extjs, jquery and yui for my webproject. Here are my findings: - I started testing with extjs. Extjs is extremely bloated and because of that extjs is slow to load and to use and difficult to debug. On my development machine (a 3 year old 1.6 Ghz single core PC with 512 MB ram) it takes 15 seconds to load a full extjs application, serving only local files. Could be fine in an intranet environment with unlimited bandwidth and you are sure that all client PCs are fast. Is basically unusable for Internet websites - after that I tested jQuery, fast and concise but does not have UI widgets on its own. If you don't need widgets , this is the very good choice. The UI addon is a less quality than jquery, without a good rich text editor. So I looked around for more - Yui is bigger than jQuery, but not bloated as extjs. Good documentation. For me the biggest asset of YUI is the hosting service. It offloads my small webserver at home. I did not experience any issues with the rich text editor
Of course a lot is about personal taste Ruben On Nov 4, 11:43 pm, "Mr.Rech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm starting to play with Pylons since I need to develop a web app > here at work. I've been reading the Pylons book, a lot of > documentation, many threads on the forum etc. I enjoy Pylons, it's > much better than other tools I'm used to. Anyway it has a lot of > different components and it's not always so easy to choose the right > one. So I decided to stick with those components that come with Pylons > out of the box: Mako, SQLAlchemy, WebHelpers and so on, and I must say > that I'm happy with them. > > However, I'm a little bit lost about Javascript library, since, as far > as I can understand, from version 0.9.7 there is no default Javascript > library. So, I'm asking you which library you are using and why. As > for me, I have only few major needs: > > 1) I need a WYSIWYG editor like Tinymce (http:// > tinymce.moxiecode.com/) for textareas > > 2) I'd like the Javascript framework can save me as much as possible > from digging into javascript code (I'm worried about javascript tricks > and compatibility isssues) > > 3) I need AJAX and some Javascript visual effects to make the > application more appealing > > 4) The Javascript framework should let me develop fast (sorry, but > I've some strict time constraints and my boss is not very patient ;) > > I've looked at MochiKit that seems quite promising, but I haven't > heard anyone here using it. In the Pylons Book James Gardner > introduces YUI that seems quite good, but I've tried its WYSIWYG > editor and it has some glitches. > > I wouldn't start a religious war here, I'd just like to know what > Pylons people are used to use in their applications and why. > > Hope you can help me. > > Thanks in advance, > Andrea --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
