[Seaside] YUI

[Ignacio Vivona]

Why not Ext.js <http://extjs.com/> <http://extjs.com/> instead of YUI?


On 10/30/07, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Lukas> 1. Please check out the Scriptaculous history in Monticello
> before
> > Lukas> making false assertions in public.
> >
> > I realize that prototype 1.5 fixes some of the problems.  It doesn't fix
> all
> > of them.  I don't think that's a false assertion.
>
> This is not what I ment, but anyway.
>
> > Lukas> 2. At the time when script.aculo.us was picket (June 2005), there
> was
> > Lukas> no other decent JavaScript library around.
> >
> > I don't mean to sound like you made the wrong decision at the time.  I
> just
> > mean that in light of today's YUI availability, you bet on the wrong
> pony.  I
> > hope to correct that by helping to create a complete YUI interface
> instead.
>
> You are comparing apples and oranges. YUI is mostly a widget library,
> while Prototype is a framework to assist AJAX application development.
>
> As of today I would indeed choose a different library. However I am
> certain that Prototype is a far better choice than YUI for what it
> does. I don't need ready made JavaScript widgets, I want lightweight
> tools to have more control over the client side.  YUI is bloated and
> overly complex. It hardly matches the model of stateful components in
> Seaside.
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>
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