Brennan,
Reading through the transcript from the meeting I see that I got a small mention.
Instead of looking specifically at hooks, what I've decided to do is build my RSS Reader based on the current mail task. From there I can then go backwards and see what I wanted to use, look at how it currently works, and work out what we need. Doing it this way also is allowing me to learn more about how the RC architecture works so that I can contribute more later on. It also lets me check out what we need in: php, js, css, localization etc.
My first screenshot is at: http://www.cyprix.com.au/devel/rss/screenshot1.png
Sam Bailey
Brennan Stehling wrote:
I am OK with any Javascript library which is small but also handles all of our needs.
It needs to help manage events, handle drag/drop and also offer a few effects to produce a modern web UI.
And it definitely needs to have online documentation which we can use.
What we need to do is come up with a list of requirements for a Javascript library and then we can evaluate each available library to see which ones fill the requirements. I still like the Dean Edwards event library. It is small and just handles the cross-browser events API. It has not effects or drag/drop, but will allow us to reliably attach our custom behavior.
http://brennan.offwhite.net/rcdev/scripts/events.js
Sam,
As you work through your list of hooks for the plugin, could you maintain a list of potential requirements for the Javascript library?
Brennan
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 4:04:48 -0600, Gnative shane@gnative.com wrote:
I agree with scriptolicious being a big library for the roundcube project. There would be so many redundant functionality in the library that we just dont need. I would suggest looking at either of
- moo.fx - http://moofx.mad4milk.net/
- jqeury - http://jquery.com/
for a small, documented and cross browser solutions to use. Both compress down to under 20k and looking at RC's javascript this is posible to get down to this size or under with the existing JS.
They both use a javascript compression http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3158.html system developed by Andrea Giammarchi. Which i think sould maybe be considered as an addition to the core of Roundcube. When a plugin is newly activated in the roundcube enviroment the compressor is called to create one compress Js file.
Other advantages of useing these libraries are an already strong team of developers working toward a clean javascript library and documented functions.
Shane
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:12:20 +0100, Mathieu Lecarme mathieu@garambrogne.net wrote:
May we should start a list of event handlers/wrappers. Obviously there will be a lot of them, but maybe try and get the basics down. Then we can try to get them interacting together safely.
Have a look of dotclear website, the plugin architecture is small and nice. You have to manage event, but also preference panel, persistance, and little thing like i18n, icon, and templating (with widgets).
I haven't used JSON before, only AJAX requests, so I'll be off to learn how it all works. Don't worry about the stylesheet, as long as it is functional that is all we need for the moment.
JSON is just a serialization, with a javascript syntax. From javascript you use it like ajax, with a callback, but without XML parsing.
M.
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