FWIW, Wikia did some "analysis" in the past and chose YUI back then. Since then they've re-evaluated that, and had already switched to jQuery before the Usability initiative even started up. jQuery does do the job. It's lightweight, simple, and easy to use for most of the things you want to do. Trying to do ajax with YUI was extremely painful in the past, while with jQuery I've been able to write a number of good things on Wikia. I even rewrote show/hide to use jQuery cutting it's size in half from 200lines to 100 and adding on a number of improvements.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] Sergey Chernyshev 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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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 <http://daniel.friesen.name/>] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal > Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment > - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new > with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports > 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - > and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
