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 an out of date version of an old version of jQuery (1.3.1, the latest 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel