Hi Lukas!
Lukas Renggli renggli@gmail.com wrote:
couple of things that are still experimental, but when having problems these are the version that are fixed the quickest as well. I know that Avi (DabbleDB) and myself (Magritte, Pier, and a few applications at netstyle.ch) are using the latest 2.6 versions without problems in productive applications.
Lukas
Sounds good. Any other Seaside "addons" I should pick up from the beginning? Scriptaculous? Shore components might be useful I guess.
Yeah, Scriptaculous is the way to go for AJAX applications, however this requires that you are using the new canvas framework for rendering. Shore components are useful if you want to use a ready-made design and some more sophisticated standard components.
Right. I have looked around at the AJAX-techs (Mochikit, Dojo etc) to try to get a sense of what projects have momentum etc. Lots of different opinions. Scriptaculous/Prototype seems to get a bit of critique since it is a bit... "incompatible" with other packages (IIRC). Dojo seems to get a lot of positive remarks about the base architecture/design - but it is not really available yet. But I did find the demos quite impressive (you need to dig a bit to find them). Also read a bit about Mochikit etc.
Anyway, I don't know much about all these - and since Avi and others have been putting work into Scriptaculous that is probably what I will go with.
Mewa or Magritte might be interesting for you too, if you plan to do a lot with forms and dialogs. Both frameworks help to build and validate forms automatically. Since Magritte is described with its own meta-framework, it is even possible to let the users customize and build their own forms from the web.
In fact - this is exactly what we want to be able to do among other things. Or at least have forms dynamically built from a model of "Form" and "Field" objects.
If you have pointers to something to read I would appreciate it - or I will just take a look at it myself.
regards, Göran