I had absolutely no say in the choice; but I have talked about it with the
Wikimedia Foundation Javascript people (including Michael Dale, who I
believe is on this list - feel free to jump in here, Michael); and there
seemed to be a consensus that jQuery is the most powerful-yet-lightweight of
the major Javascript libraries. People talked about it in the glowing tones
that I've usually heard reserved for Python and Ruby. And for what it's
worth, one of the Javascript people is a former Yahoo! developer who thought
that YUI had become too bloated. I'm just passing on what I heard here;
don't blame the messenger. :)
-Yaron
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Sergey Chernyshev <
sergey.chernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any idea why jQuery was decided to be the library of choice? Was there any
> analysis done for it?
> Or you guys just picked the hottest latest thing? Just curious, really.
>
> Sergey
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes, this is planned for SF, for the reason you note - it was actually
>> mentioned in my "planned changes" talk at SMW Camp [1] (page 6). SF also
>> uses the Floatbox Javascript library for file uploading, which I also hope
>> to move over to jQuery if possible.
>>
>> Similarly, Semantic Drilldown uses the Ext library for comboboxes, and I
>> hope to move that to jQuery as well.
>>
>> I should note that I have no immediate plans to do this, and also no
>> special knowledge of jQuery yet; so if you or anyone else wants to help with
>> the move-over, please just let me know.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/images/0/05/SMW_Camp_-_Planned_changes_-_Yaron.pdf
>>
>> -Yaron
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Friesen <li...@danielfriesen.name
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Has there been any discussion, tickets, or thought towards migrating
>>> Semantic Forms (and if it uses YUI anywhere, SMW)?
>>>
>>> The usability initiative / js2 is using jQuery so jQuery will soon be
>>> standardly included into MediaWiki.
>>>
>>> So it would be a good idea to migrate to using jQuery. Loading 2
>>> different javascript libraries is unnecessary.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>>>
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