[Seaside] YUI

Conrad Taylor conradwt at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 18:33:51 UTC 2007


Hey Ignacio, I just took look at the EXT stuff and I must say that it looks
very nice.

Thanks for the info,

-Conrad

On 10/30/07, Ignacio Vivona <altobarba at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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