On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Jorge Vargas wrote: > I'm developing an app with a friend and he is going to do the front > end, and has suggested to use dojo, I really don't have any > arguments agains/pro it so please give me your comments. > > I have done some research and dojo was one of the libs Kevin use > for the "effective ajax" screencast, although I don't see a widget > for it.
I didn't actually use Dojo, I just referred to it. > Anyone has a widget for it? if not this sounds like a great idea > for me to learn how to do those. Nope. Wrapping Dojo would be an interesting task, because it's different from a typical "do one thing" JavaScript library. In fact, it's not even typical as far as "just add this script tag", because it has a whole module/package system. > From what I have read Dojo is more featurefull then mochikit, but > mochikit is more pythonic (whatever that means) MochiKit is Pythonic in that it provides a bunch of functions that we, Python programmers, like and take for granted. Dojo is, without a doubt, more featureful. > Another thing I have read is that mochikit was written so it wont > colide with other toolkits so it shouldn't be a problem to > integrate them. Correct. In fact, MochiKit has specific support for integrating with Dojo's packaging system. > what dojo has that mochikit can't provide? Here's the rub: Dojo has many features that MochiKit does not. It's worth figuring out if those features are ones that are actually useful to you. 1) animation - Dojo has it currently, MochiKit will have it in 1.4 2) dojo.storage - store effectively limitless amounts of data on the client with little programming effort 3) more Ajax features - different kinds of transports and whatnot 4) "comet" - long-lived connections that the server can use to push data to the client... it's unclear that CherryPy can do the server side of this right now 5) widgets - something similar to TG's widgets, but implemented completely client-side 6) probably many other things that I haven't read about or that aren't documented yet Dojo is, without a doubt, worthy of investigation and use. Personally, I find MochiKit to be quite easy and pleasant to work with... I like how MochiKit doesn't require fully qualified names and implements $(). But, I wouldn't be surprised if I find use cases where Dojo is a good fit along the way. Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
