[Chicago] [OT] Dijit Widgets

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

I'm +1 on YUI too. Until then I had been using prototypejs but YUI has
lots of people using it,  which translates into results when you are
searching.  When I get a minute to breathe I plan on trying out ExtJS.

-Jeff

On 11/1/07, Chuck Martin <cwurld at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am not sure what you mean by "forces you to use
> Yahoo services". I can't speak for the whole package,
> but the parts I am using seem to be self contained
> javascript that can run independent of the yahoo
> website.
>
> Maybe the confusion comes from the 2 ways you can use
> the code. You can download it and serve it from your
> own server. Or you can have the yahoo server serve the
> code for you. The advantage of having yahoo serve it
> is you will always have the most recent version. Since
> they are so active, I think that is a big plus.
>
> Or the confusion may come from one of yahoo's css
> files. They have one that they encourage all users to
> use. What is does is explicitly set a bunch of styles.
> They say the reason they do this is to create a
> consistent starting point. Without that css, each
> browser sets defaults for all those styles. Using this
> style sheet is optional. I found that it helped me
> avoid a lot of problems and made my webpage behave
> more consistently across browsers. But even with this
> style sheet, I can set my styles to whatever I want.
>
> I'm sorry, I don't recall what version of Dojo I used.
> It was 9 months ago. It looked promising then. If I
> had to start from scratch today, I would definitely
> look into dojo.
>
>
> --- Adam Jenkins <emperorcezar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've heard good things, but I've also heard that YUI
> > "forces" (defaults) you
> > into using Yahoo services?
> > Yea, I heard about Dojo having incomplete
> > documentation. Could I ask, what
> > version were you using? They seem to be up to 0.9
> > and 1.0 beta.
> >
> > On 11/1/07, Chuck Martin <cwurld at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > About 9 months ago, I tried using dojo with my
> > Django
> > > site. Although dojo looked promising, I found it
> > > frustrating to use. The documentation was
> > incomplete
> > > and sometimes contradictory. I had the most luck
> > when
> > > I used their unit tests as documentation.
> > >
> > > About the same time, I also explored Yahoo's User
> > > Interface (YUI) library. I had much better luck
> > with
> > > it. It has better documentation and lots of
> > examples.
> > > So dropped Dojo and am using YUI exclusively.
> > >
> > > YUI also has an incredibly active Yahoo Users
> > Group
> > > and it appears that they have people on the
> > payroll
> > > who work on this code full time.
> > >
> > > One thing that real amazed me was I was using
> > their
> > > layout code and ran into troubles with Safari. So
> > I
> > > posted a note on the message board. Some one
> > responded
> > > quickly and we exchanged several messages. I turns
> > out
> > > he was one of the Yahoo developers. Since I could
> > not
> > > resolve the problem, he actually logged into my
> > > webpage and worked on the problem for several
> > hours.
> > > Unfortunately he could not resolve it, but I
> > applaud
> > > the effort.
> > >
> > > I think putting YUI in the public domain is good
> > for
> > > Yahoo and good for the rest of us. They get a huge
> > > group of testers for free and we get some pretty
> > > robust code.
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just recently caught up with Dojo...these
> > neat-o
> > > > "Dijits" seem like
> > > > they're God's gift to Javascript, which makes me
> > > > sort of weary.
> > > > Especially as I can't find anyone actually using
> > > > them, and the demo
> > > > page on the main Dojo site appears broken.
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone using these things?  I'm really hoping
> > > > they're awesome, as I
> > > > dislike layout and design, and love data.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
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