Investigate using a library like jQuery instead of writing our own javascript

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Investigate using a library like jQuery instead of writing our own javascript #122

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Currently we write our own javascript, and it's a nightmare getting it to
work properly across more than one browser. If we used a library like
jQuery (which is dual MIT/LGPL licensed) we could save ourselves a lot of
trouble.

Thoughts?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by johannes...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2008 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

This sounds like something really worth investigating.

However, before deciding to use jQuery, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_frameworks

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2008 at 9:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Based on the wikipedia page mentioned above, the choice would seem to be between
jQuery and mochikit. Mochikit is certainly the more "Pythonic" of the two (it's
largely inspired by Twisted...), although from personal experience with jQuery I
would say that it would work just as well.

One advantage of jQuery is that the barrier to understanding it seems much 
lower.

I am going to mark this as Accepted and Beyond1.0 - I think this should be one 
of the
things we focus on post-1.0.

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2008 at 7:50

Changed state: Accepted
Added labels: Component-JavaScript, Milestone-Beyond1.0, OpSys-All

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

In response to André's comments to issue 124 I am marking this as Release1.0 
and I
will be creating a branch to play with jQuery.

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 9:19

Added labels: Milestone-Release1.0
Removed labels: Milestone-Beyond1.0

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I will be documenting my efforts on the BetterJavascript page in the wiki.

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 9:06

Added labels: Type-Task
Removed labels: Type-Idea

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

OK, as mentioned elsewhere, the COMET call now uses the jQuery AJAx interface 
and
seems to work beautifully in Camino and Firefox 2. In theory we should not have 
any
more problems with IE - can someone please test...

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 9:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

This is essentially done.  However, it appears to not work with Safari - 
sometimes
the file loading just hangs...   I'm keeping this open for now, but would be 
happy to
declare it close (and require Firefox...).

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2008 at 1:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

johannes, have you looked at http://pyjs.org ?
pyjs is _entirely_ python - not just "looks vaguely like" - it _is_ python.
any questions, contact us on google groups pyjamas-dev.

Original comment by luke.lei...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2009 at 9:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

This is essentially done.  jquery plugins provide an easy way to add new
functionality. The problem with Safari (on a Mac) seems to have gone away now 
with
the latest version.

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2009 at 1:14

Changed state: Fixed