On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Anthony Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Where I work we are using ExtJs heavily for an Corporate Intranet > application. I think ExtJs is excellent for "corporate" style web > *applications*. I'm not sure I would use it for a mass market public > website however. > > For the record the applications front end is almost all constructed in > Javascript with almost not views or HTML predefined.
Thanks Anthony. No wonder I've never seen a Rails apps using ExtJS, it turns out to be hiding behind the corporate door. :P I'm starting to feel like that corporate intranet use fullstack widgets because it has the needs to have a desktop like application running on the browser. And using widgets like ExtJS is a perfect fit for these needs. You could also spend more time on the business logic as default functionality from these widgets is already sufficient for user interaction needs. And corporate intranet application is not heavily concentrating on user experience as much as public facing internet application. But with public facing application, a fullstack widgets might feel a little bit too overkill and sometimes it is easier to be able to get to the lowest level to manipulate the DOM. Using html, css and javascript framework like jQuery is already sufficient enough for these type of application. As for public facing application, the user interaction is usually more sophisticated because the user experience is much more important but on the other hand the business logic is much simpler, therefore you would spend more time on the front-end rather than the backend. Please correct my very premature understanding about this if I still get it wrong. Thanks for the insights guys! -- Certified Scrum Master Post agile jobs for free: http://jobs.scrum8.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
