Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your offer to help - it's great to know that we have you as a
resource.

-Yaron

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Daniel Friesen <li...@danielfriesen.name>wrote:

> Interesting, I like the idea of a JS overhaul, it's a little overdue.
>
> Feel free to ask me questions as well. I was a PHP developer before, but
> JavaScript is my primary language now, it's possible I may understand
> JavaScript itself, the browser embedding of it, and jQuery better than
> most of the other developers on the list. So feel free to ask about
> anything JS related.
>
> Oh, btw I kinda want to caution on the use of some jQuery libraries,
> especially jqGrid.
> jQuery libraries don't often keep up to date with newer versions of
> jQuery as they come out. Depending on them can hinder the ability to
> upgrade the library. Looking at jqGrid they appear to be sticking with
> an out of date version of an old version of jQuery (1.3.1, the latest
> jQuery is 1.4.2 and the latest 1.3 series was 1.3.2). Also while they
> may abstract some things, they can also lock you in a box, by depending
> on a plugin you can get to a point where you want to do just one small
> extra little thing, but the plugin can't do it and restricts your
> ability to do it yourself. I often ran into that issue when I looked at
> autocomplete plugins.
> jQuery is nice, but plugins can be hazardous, jQuery is best used with
> minimal plugins.
>
> Oh, if you run into border-radius use anywhere, poke me... pet peeve,
> 99% of the border-radius uses on the web are badly setup missing radius
> support in browsers that do support border-radius.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>
> Sanyam goyal wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >         My name is Sanyam Goyal.  I am a final year student at IIT
> > Mumbai, India. I  have been accepted in Gsoc2010 to do a project with
> > MediaWiki titled "Javascript overhaul of Semantic MediaWiki
> > <
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010#Javascript_overhaul_of_Semantic_MediaWiki
> >"
> > under the mentor Yaron Koren. This is my first step in the world of
> > open-source community and I get this exciting opportunity to work with
> > MediaWiki.  I am sure I will have a lot of fun working with the
> > community.
> >     I have created a Blog page http://gsoc2010mediawiki.blogspot.com/
> > for this project. I will keep updating this page with latest status
> > about the project, the problem I am facing, Interesting findings etc.
> > Feedback and comments are always welcomed. I look forward to interact
> > with you guys more in future.
> >    Thanks
> >
> > regards,
> > --
> > Sanyam Goyal
> > Btech4,Senior UnderGraduate
> > IIT Bombay
>
>
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