Dojo works with Safari. What exactly doesn't work with Konqueror?
Dojo is a one stop shop, which we need. Xajax is only for the server requests, scriptaculous is mostly for the visual effects (we really don't need that many). Dojo has both, and an awesome javascript model. The only thing they're missing is docs, and pretty demos (ala scriptaculous), and they are about to turn out 0.2, which should take care of both of those.
As far as code bloat, dojo has a mature packaging system taht only gives us the files that the project uses, and not a single file more. it's actually a unified toolkit, meaning it's code consists of many different code toolkits from prior to 2003. Basically the code is mature, and the developers (note the S, as scriptaculous has only 1 developer who does it as a hobby) know their stuff, having worked on javascript for over 5 years. Again, they have 2 programmers workign fulltime on the toolkit.
To answer the "massive code rewrite" question, i think it'd be xajax that would. Since dojo isn't tied to any one language, all we need to do is modify the javascript. I think no matter what toolkit we go with, we'll have to do that anyway, so I'm not sure i see your point.
On 10/20/05, Mark Constable markc@renta.net wrote:
On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:19, Christopher A. Watford wrote:
On 10/19/05, Praneet Kandula pkmlist@gmail.com wrote:
If I were to suggest an Ajax framework, then it'd definetly be the Dojo Toolkit (http://www.dojotoolkit.org). It has an extremely healthy base of developers, and all of them are well respected in the DHTML community. It has the backing of multiple companies, so it's not dependent purely on volunteer development.
Dojo is clean, intuitive, and heavily developed. I highly suggest using it.
Most of the Dojo examples do not work with Konqueror, which may also mean Safari does not work(?)
xajax may be simpler but it does work with Konqueror and does not require a massive development effort because it "just works".
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