[Wellington-pm] AJAX and Catalyst.pm

[Finlay Thompson]

One more vote for jQuery from me.

Especially important is the large market share that it now has, which
means that it has lots of third party plugins, and gets lots of love
from the core development people.

It also has an interesting approach to event driven programming. I added
some fancy key bindings to a form and it was as easy as writing CSS.

Finlay


On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 13:15 +1300, Martyn Smith wrote:
> I also vote for jQuery :-)
> 
> It is really well documented at jquery.com, and I believe has a fancy UI
> layer that provides lots of nifty effects.
> 
> Additionally it has a nice simple plugin API, and many people have written
> plugins to do all sorts of things (chances are the thing you want to do
> already exists as a plugin) :-)
> 
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:00:25PM +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> > Hi Dave
> > 
> > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:43 +1300, Dave Moskovitz wrote:
> > > One of my clients has asked me to add some AJAX eye-candy to a Catalyst.pm 
> > > app ... does anyone have good success stories with any particular framework 
> > > (eg Dojo, Prototype, ExtJS, etc) ?
> > 
> > I have used Prototype and was quite happy until my code didn't work in
> > new browsers (FF3 maybe IE8).  This happened because Prototype was
> > polluting global namespaces to add methods to all elements/objects.
> > Some of these method names ended up colliding with new DOM methods which
> > didn't do exactly what the Prototype methods did.  The 'fix' would have
> > been to upgrade to the latest Prototype but apart from the fact that I
> > had to update my code for renamed methods, other bits of the API had
> > changed as well in more subtle ways and I never managed to make it work.
> > 
> > More recently I have been using JQuery because smart people say it's
> > good and it doesn't have the namespace pollution problems of Prototype.
> > I've only done small things with JQuery so far but they've all worked.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Grant
> > 
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