> Personally, I prefer dojo and would rather contribute something based on > that. If people want to do an ext-based explorer, I'm not sure that's > something I'd be interested in. As for looks, I'd need you to be more > specific about how ext is "visually substantially superior." Honestly, > though, there is more to javascript UI development than just looks ;-) well, i would agree to that... as long as we can agree that "looks" specifically visual consistency is important for a ui.
> I am genuinely interested in your opinion and examples, though, because > I've seen some really good dojo-based UI's. > I do think that the default L&F of dojo maybe isn't the best, but I'm certain > we wouldn't have to live with that. well, maybe i just have only seen the wrong dojo ui's so far... maybe you could point me to a couple of good examples or themes that you think work with from a visual perspective. and i guess visual consistency comes amongst other things from about a zillion small css settings that i am personally not prepared to put in my time to fix them in dojo. i know that for myself, that i would then probably live with ugly interface and hate it every time i use it ;) (jokingly i would compare it to using fvwm on linux) regards, david
