Massimo, thanks for the pointer to ractive.js and comments about Angular.js. I still don't see much more I need that isn't provided by web2py components and some simple js scripts or jQuery routines.
Angular somehow didn't pass my sniff test. Seemed like it was going to get out of hand too quickly. Your comments seem to confirm my suspicion. In general, when looking at angular.js and ractive.js doc, it seems like there's a push to move more functionality to the client side. This seems counterproductive for a couple of reasons. The clients are far less capable than the server ... think cell phone ARM processor with a few MB memory vs. server pentium with many GB memory. So isn't pushing more processing onto client going to slow down the user experience and eat up mobile device battery faster? Isn't it more efficient to do the processing on the server and then send a few kb down to client end? Sure there are cases where you want to do maths in the front end or fancy animations. I usually let the js gurus do that stuff and then get it via a jQuery plugin. Is that what these frameworks are for, to help the jQuery wonks build fancy front-end stuff that the rest of us back-end guys can leverage later? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
