Absolutely simple to make your own components with custom css. Hooks for jQuery included too. Go boldly forward Xman!
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Xybrek <xyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am really new to Tapestry, I just want to ask some questions before I > embark deeper with the framework (although I like T5 already) > > My background is with GWT and jQuery, which in GWT, there is a thick UI > which communicates to the server through RPC to get data. > > GWT is just the same with jQuery only that it uses Java-to-Javascript and > ajax calls are through RPC (at least for the most part) > > With jQuery however, its much more low-level (I mean Javascript) we do > things in Javascript. Calls to the server and page manipulation. > > However, with Tapestry it seems that the page is rendered from the server > side (which is pretty cool--like PHP) > > So I wonder, how to deal with components with T5? In GWT I can create a > simple button and some textbox to create a form, style it with CSS. Add > some handlers to get text inputs and pass it on to the server. > > With GWT create the whole web application by defining EntryPoints which is > a rendered page, which contains components I can style with CSS and add > function on the page that will pass data back and forth the UI and the > server. > > I don't want to discuss details on how to do this with Tapestry I just > want to get some ideas as to which are possible and not possible with the > framework. > > Can I create my own components and forms with my own CSS or there is a set > of components that can only be used? > > Cheers. > Xybrek > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tapestry.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
