[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-23 Thread Mark Ramm
The ext.js blog also mentioned a number of other server side projects. http://extjs.com/blog/2008/01/22/ext-growth-and-server-side-community-projects/ I know a lot of us would love to see some good server-side+widget side stuff happen in TurboGears ;) I just haven't (and probably won't for a

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-22 Thread Luciano G. Panaro
Maybe some ideas could be taken from here: http://inside.glnetworks.de/2008/01/18/announcing-ext-scaffold-generator-plugin-for-rails/ I just saw this and haven't tried it yet but it reminded me of this thread. On Jan 19, 10:12 pm, Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are (some of)

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Alberto Valverde
Hi Daniel, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: () 3. Let's pick a well-designed, robust and reliable javascript library and add functionally to tg that helps integrating it to any tg project. Users would have to write their javascript themselves but tg would automate some or most of the typical

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Mark Ramm
If we can get some people (at least 2 preferably 3) to work on ext.js+turbogears integration patterns, I would be very willing to add some of this as a TG dependency eventually. Particularly if there were some working code ;) I do think that the future of web development is going to be

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Alberto Valverde
Mark Ramm wrote: There's a ToscaWidgets ExtJS egg which packages version 1.something (would be nice to upgrade it to v2) which could be used to dynamically include the needed parts of ExtJS in the page as TW can take care of tracking dependences between JS static files and include only the

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Mark Ramm
I'm aware of that code and that's more or less the idea, the difference being that since TW can generate the js and css links that are injected in the html it can take advantage of this and only insert a single link to the whole ball on production and separate links on debugging. AFAIK

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread iain duncan
On Sat, 2008-19-01 at 13:24 +0100, Alberto Valverde wrote: Hi Daniel, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: () 3. Let's pick a well-designed, robust and reliable javascript library and add functionally to tg that helps integrating it to any tg project. Users would have to write their

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
If we can get some people (at least 2 preferably 3) to work on ext.js+turbogears integration patterns, I would be very willing to add some of this as a TG dependency eventually. Particularly if there were some working code ;) I have some working code (very alpha of course), what is the

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
There's a ToscaWidgets ExtJS egg which packages version 1.something (would be nice to upgrade it to v2) which could be used to dynamically include the needed parts of ExtJS in the page as TW can take care of tracking dependences between JS static files and include only the ones needed,

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
If we can get some people (at least 2 preferably 3) to work on ext.js+turbogears integration patterns, I would be very willing to add some of this as a TG dependency eventually. Particularly if there were some working code ;) I played a bit with ext.js, but I soon felt like hitting a

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
I like the idea of this project, but I'm a little worried about the execution. I'd definitely prefer to see it in a seperate package from tg2 proper, as a lot of people won't really need this and it's a shame to force it on them. Fully agreed. A separate package is the the right place as

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Kevin Horn
I like the idea of this project, but I'm a little worried about the execution. I'd definitely prefer to see it in a seperate package from tg2 proper, as a lot of people won't really need this and it's a shame to force it on them. I also think that tg2 needs work in other areas first, more than

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Daniel Fetchinson schrieb: There are loads of examples http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/ which are really useful in combination with the API reference. Yes, but these operate with static data, and do not cover the whole problems of shuffling the data from the controller to the widget via

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On 1/19/08, Christoph Zwerschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Fetchinson schrieb: There are loads of examples http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/ which are really useful in combination with the API reference. Yes, but these operate with static data, and do not cover the whole

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Daniel Fetchinson schrieb: Here are (some of) the fully functional examples which do cover remote data access of all shapes and sizes using Stores, Proxies, Readers, etc, etc via JSON and/or XML: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/form/custom.html

[tg-trunk] Re: some thoughts on tg + javascript

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Here are (some of) the fully functional examples which do cover remote data access of all shapes and sizes using Stores, Proxies, Readers, etc, etc via JSON and/or XML: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/form/custom.html http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/form/xml-form.html