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.
It's also quite easy to use, and it's ajax operations are a snap. Check out how active their source tree is. it's by far the most comprehensive, yet easy to use of the frameworks out there:
http://dojotoolkit.org/trac/timeline
Basically, I think it covers all the things Roundcube needs it to do:
- AJAX operations (no page reload) are very simple, and have a lot of features,
including back/forward-button handling ala Gmail.
- Visual Effects. In case we need to make things dissapear, or appear, wipe in,
out, etc, it has everything we need.
- Autocomplete. It's very easy to do an autocomplete. They have predefined
functions to do this, all we have to do is adapt it to roundcube's source (very easy)
- Widget system, which are basically predefined javascript things, like
file-trees, sortable tables, etc, and are hugely customizable. Heck, they even have a fish-eye widget ala OS X. A couple of cool examples:
- Date/Time Picker:
http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/tests/widget/test_CiviCrmDateTimePick...
- Fisheye widget (like OS X)
http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/widget/Fisheye.html
Etc. Also, their mailing lists are pretty active, and developers are happy to provide support.
What do you guys think?
On 10/19/05, Jeremy Jongsma jeremy@jongsma.org wrote:
Has anyone looked at xajax (http://xajax.sourceforge.net/)? I don't know much about RoundCube's AJAX framework, but I know there was some talk about restructuring it a bit, so thought I'd throw this out and see if it's any use. It looks pretty interesting from a cursory examination.
-j
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