OK, no blame on the messanger, but the tone behind Python and Ruby is
exactly why I'm worried about it ;)
Nothing bad about those two languages, but I have a feeling that glowing
tone is attributed not only to the language / library qualities. At least,
not necessarily to those that are needed.
Still, this is my feeling, not necessarily correct one ;)
Sergey
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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