There's also the issue of bugs; these complex frameworks are not without bugs, and debugging can be a world-of-pain.
Upgrading your JS framework is also always tricky, and hard to justify to whoever is paying the bills. We had a complex project written a couple of years ago using Dojo 0.4, and we attempted to upgrade to Dojo 1.something - and gave up; the framework had changed at a fundamental level, and upgrading would have been harder than re-writing. - Korny On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Colin Campbell-McPherson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been working on a project recently that makes a great deal of use > of the YUI widgets, similar to those in dojo and exjs I believe. I'd > avoid them in my own work (rails) mostly because I feel they quickly > complicate the UI and make your application harder to use. My > experience has also been that they're very difficult to get working, > and where I going from the productivity of Rails to YUI I'd soon > become frustrated and feel like I wasn't making any progress. > > > On 01/10/2009, at 2:42 PM, Joshua Partogi 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 >> >> > > > > > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk - korny on wave sandbox "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
