Hi Josh; I think that because Prototype is the "default" javascript framework that a lot of Rails apps would just run with the given ball, especially apps that are being written by a newer Rails developer.
That said, I tend to agree with Ben S. We use jQuery in all our apps now due to it "feeling" right. I think that jQuery + a few select plugins (included on the pages that need them) provides the right balance between a powerful javascript environment and performance/weight. One more thing is that you could argue that a framework like jQuery might have just "caught more eyes". It's got great docs and Yehuda is(was?) part of the core team and probably made it more visible to the Rails community, so therefore maybe it was marketing that got to us? Matta On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Joshua Partogi <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please correct my false understanding about this. But from what I have > observed, lots of rails applications does not use fullblown javascript > widgets like extjs or dojo. Why is the tendency of rails apps only > rely on basic javascript framework like jquery or prototype? Or > perhaps to simplify it, why does your rails apps does not use extjs > (despite of the license) or dojo? > > Is anyone willing to share based on their experience? Thanks very much > for the insights. > > regards, > > -- > Certified Scrum Master > http://blog.scrum8.com > http://twitter.com/scrum8 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
