Thanks Fritz and Aditya!Am just going through the docs. By the way just wanted to know if the docs are sufficient to leanr the framework apart from of course working on it and learning, and is there any other sources which you would want to recommend. My apologies for bugging you all here.
Thanks Alice! On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:55 PM, aditya siram <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
