Re: Javascript Library

On Oct 31, 8:24 am, Peter Michaux <petermich...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know if it will help with your task I think you should use YUI
for a while.


I have been using YUI for almost two years. I use the Tree, Panel,
Container, Menu, Event modules and at times have used the Connection
(AJAX) module. They are all solid and do not obfuscate the language
like JQuery, Prototype etc. The documentation is good and the code is
so well written that tweaks to the library are easy to make. I have
used the datatable module for one project and have backed off a bit
because it is lacking in a few features that seem essential to me (the
ability to load from local XML for one).

There are two downsides to this library that I can see. One is that
if you are using many modules on a page, the load is slow although YUI
has an experimental Loader module that may help with this. The other
downside is that some of their releases have been backwardly
incompatible and though they provide extensive notes as to most of
these backward incompatibilities, it is a pain with a large site.

I have come to believe lately that there are no real helpful AJAX
libraries and that the task of cobbling together your own AJAX object
or set of functions is pretty easy and the best solution.

But hey, you want some real library nastiness, try creating javascript
proxies for .NET web services. We should all be grateful for
mootools,jquery,prototype,yui,dojo and on and on, excuse the incorrect
capitalization.

Bob

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