Hi. I don't share your fear. IMO, the qooxdoo community, while not necessarily as big as the jQuery community, is quite solid - I haven't heard of anybody leaving qooxdoo for jQuery, not even for smartclient, ext or anything similar.
Besides, IMO you have to consider things from a historical perspective. Most ppl doing web apps fall in two categories: people with a website designer background, and enterprise app developers. The website designers will always prefer jQuery, because OOP is not something they grok. These will probably be left out in the cold, in a few years, as people start realizing that web apps are not the same as web sites. The enterprise app developers are mostly people with a proper understanding of OOP, and of programming in general, skilled in various server-side technologies which allow one to build a complete web app, such as struts, tapestry, wicket, jsf or whatever, which have an instinctive distrust for technologies which move logic to the client, and also for loosely typed languages like Javascript (for some reason Javascript having an even worse reputation than Perl, for instance). Besides, these people are constrained by what technologies tool and server vendors describe as enterprise technologies - companies won't allow the usage of a technology which isn't designated as enterprisey by a better known technology provider. There's one complaint I have about qooxdoo, however. Even if hardware becomes faster, and Javascript engines too become faster, large apps may have speed problems in IE. Since IE is still a heavily used browser, especially in enterprise environments, it is IMO imperatively necessary that qooxdoo apps become faster on IE. Not doing any optimization in this direction might be a huge problem for wider adoption. br, flj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
