To my mind JQuery and Qooxdoo are orthogonal. In broad strokes, JQuery is nice for theming and controlling a bunch of HTML, whereas Qooxdoo is a self-contained application platform which shines when the server doesn't care about presentation and responds to AJAX requests with JSON or XML.
Qooxdoo is a superset of JQuery in terms of functionality [1] which is why it is able to use JQuery plugins [2] with some wrapping. Qooxdoo also has very efficient widgets of its own - I was pleasantly surprised that I could have a table with 30,000 row. On the downside it comes with a much steeper learning curve and can be heavier - if you're making web sites for mobile phones you need to be careful of memory usage [3]. It also has nowhere near as rich a set of UI plugins as JQuery (eg. to my knowledge there isn't a lightbox image viewer or a slideshow widget) - but since integration is relatively simple it shouldn't be a huge deal. -deech [1] http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/general/from_jquery_to_qooxdoo [2] http://tobi.oetiker.ch/test/QxJqPlot/ [3] http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/general/mobile_devices On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:21 AM, alice ni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have been into web development for the past few months and program > in python. Now as I go ahead, I realise that running away from > Javascript is not going to take me anywhere. So I picked up Dojo , and > have been working around with it for some time. But the poor docs make > me spend a lot of time figuring out the smallest of things. After > doing some research on the available frameworks , I decided to go with > Qooxdoo and I hope I am able to catch up things fast. > > However some post on stackoverflow said that Qooxdoo is not a > replacement for jquery.Does that mean I will have to go ahead learning > jquery too. I personally dont want to learn jquery, the only > reason--almost every other person uses it.. :-) . > > Thanks > Alice! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture > Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using > Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end > client virtualization framework. Read more! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
