Peter De Berdt wrote in post #973735: > On 10 Jan 2011, at 19:14, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > >>> you'll >>> simply have no other choice than to write proper Javascript (although >>> with Sproutcore that's quite debatable, but still). >> >> Just out of curiosity: what do you mean by that last remark? (I've >> been >> interested in SproutCore but haven't really played with it yet.) > > Apart from the fact that SproutCore uses ruby generators to generate > its files and compile to a static build not much to be honest, but > there's always people nitpicking :-) The actual code you write is > still Javascript of course.
Right, that makes sense. > > I'm more familiar with ExtJS (using it in production apps) although in > a way I wish I wasn't. Don't get me wrong, it certainly has its > merits, but there's just too much in there that doesn't gel with me > for some reason. It's probably just personal preference though, just > like I prefer Ruby and Rails over some other languages, frameworks and > DSLs. Yeah, I looked at ExtJS, and it just seems (from the little I've been able to figure out) like the wrong approach, starting right from its distrust of HTML and the resulting insistence on building the whole DOM programmatically (or am I getting that wrong?). > > Only dipped my toes into SproutCore but it's certainly an interesting > framework and I might pick it up if the right project comes along. > However, I'm especially looking forward to Yehuda's work of > abstracting certain parts of SproutCore so I can hook those into > existing and new apps (the whole binding MVC part for example). Interesting. > > > Best regards > > Peter De Berdt Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en.
