[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-29 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 28, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Damjan wrote: It does have some nice features. I'd like to see all the CSS-selector emulation in MochiKit, but adding properties to or proxying DOM objects is not something I want MochiKit to do. Yes, that's the single greatest feature of jQuery, the CSS and

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-29 Thread Damjan
I've also found this, var items = document.evaluate(/rss/channel/item, res.responseXML, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null); items is an iterator so you iterate it like this: while (item = items.iterateNext()) { blah; blah; item;} But I think this is a Mozilla only feature.

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-29 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 29, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Damjan wrote: I've also found this, var items = document.evaluate(/rss/channel/item, res.responseXML, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null); items is an iterator so you iterate it like this: while (item = items.iterateNext()) { blah; blah; item;} But I think

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-28 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Damjan wrote: Has anyone used jQuery, I've just discovered it, and it seems prety interesting. It's lacking solid documentation (mochikit is great at documentation), but on the other hand it's very small 15kb and very effective. You can make a treeView in some

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-28 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Damjan wrote: I definitely wouldn't wish the jQuery programming model on anyone, but if that style appeals to you then it might be a good choice. It is certainly small, and it encourages one-liners even more than Perl does. You mean the chains? U hate them

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-28 Thread Damjan
It does have some nice features. I'd like to see all the CSS-selector emulation in MochiKit, but adding properties to or proxying DOM objects is not something I want MochiKit to do. Yes, that's the single greatest feature of jQuery, the CSS and Xpath selector. And it can work on any document.

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-27 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie question alert... I am a very experienced web developer, but am trying to wrap my brain around all the AJAX/JS frameworks/libraries sprouting up over the last year (with which I have zero experience). I finally have the need

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-27 Thread troels knak-nielsen
Incidentially, this article may help comparing the various solutions around: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/javascript-library On 6/27/06, Bob Ippolito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie question alert... I am a very experienced

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-27 Thread Kevin Dangoor
On Jun 27, 2006, at 1:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - According to Bob, Dojo is the only comparable toolkit to MK in terms of quality. This is based in part on respect of the global namespace and not prototyping/mangling the base js object. He has listed script.aculo.us, openrico, and

[mochikit] Re: MK vs Dojo vs YUI vs ?

2006-06-27 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 27, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote: On Jun 27, 2006, at 1:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - According to Bob, Dojo is the only comparable toolkit to MK in terms of quality. This is based in part on respect of the global namespace and not prototyping/mangling the base js