Heh, just FYI here, but we use Prototype.js in conjunction with a back end written in mod_perl and the HTML::Mason templating engine. It works wonderfully. Prototype (and script.aculo.us) are two wonderfully designed libraries that work in all environments.
The only caveat to this is that Prototype, being a spin-off of the RoR project, uses very Ruby-esque syntax for it's API. For our system, I've created a large number of perl syntax aliases for many of the Ruby-oriented functions and methods in Prototype.js simply to let our other developers (who spend all day working in Perl and don't want to really get neck-deep in Ruby-style syntax) work in a more comfortable environment. Those aliases have made our system "feel" better to our developers and I think that it's a practice that everyone should apply to their applications. In your C# environment, I think you might get a lot of useful benefits out of creating C# aliases to Prototype.js. That's my $0.02 on the subject. Of course, as with anything, YMMV. -E On 1/30/07, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey there (what's your name, btw?), > > The Manhatten Project a écrit : > > "Coldfusion (for crying out loud!) " > > I admit to gratuituous slight bashing due to possibly obsolete > encounters with the technology, quite a few years back. > > I used ColdFusion back when Allaire still existed... At the time, I > didn't like it at all, for a number of reasons: way too closed a dev > universe, way too little horsepower, clumsy syntax, difficulty for > MVC-like practices, and the like. > > Then Macromedia (yeah, noticed your e-mail address) bought Allaire, > turned HomeSite into something a bit bulky, and started working on > ColdFusion at some point. I hear all kinds of things now, so for all I > know, it's better. It's certainly still out there, which amazes me a > bit. (But then, diversity is good for competition and innovation, isn't > it?) > > I just, on principle, wouldn't buy into a non-OSS server-side tech. So > I go RoR now, and use PHP or J2EE-related FLOSS stacks when I must. > > But again, and for the record: I'm absolutely no CF expert, and my rare > experiences with it are way old. > > It seems much like the outsider in the server-side world though, so "for > crying out loud!" also referred to its, er... exotic label now? :-) > > -- > Christophe Porteneuve aka TDD > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Eric Ryan Harrison --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" 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/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
