I was thinking about all this last night. One thing that might be useful is to provide enough information to implement existing tags in raw Dojo/JavaScript--there's enough being done by the S2 components/tags that it might throw a lot of people off to write it by hand.
Sort of a migration guide. Dave --- On Thu, 7/24/08, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin > To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org> > Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 3:48 PM > I'd suggest that we put a replacement together before > pulling the Dojo > plugin out of the distribution (I can help). We could at > least > deprecate Dojo in the meantime. > > -T. > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Musachy Barroso > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So is the consensus so far that we should have a few, > very simple > > tags, based on another framework, and take the dojo > plugin out of > > struts? > > > > musachy > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Dave Newton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One solution would be to provide the backing > components for simple use-cases (like <sx:a...> and > <sx:submit...> at least) and an integration with a > couple JavaScript libraries, hopefully making it obvious > enough that people could then implement their own back-end. > >> > >> With simple components updating on backing library > updates is easier, and (in theory) it makes it easier to > understand how users can extend or create additional tags > to suit their needs. > >> > >> So I vote +1 for removing the existing Dojo plugin > (+0 for deprecating) and +1 for creating the simplistic > components and example integrations. > >> > >> Dave > >> > >> --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Musachy Barroso > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> From: Musachy Barroso > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove > Dojo plugin > >>> To: "Struts Developers List" > <dev@struts.apache.org> > >>> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 9:34 AM > >>> I think Dave also had a JQuery plugin > somewhere, isn't > >>> that right? > >>> > >>> musachy > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:49 AM, alvins > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > +1 to remove. > >>> > > >>> > Valid points raised by all. I personally > use JQuery in > >>> my daily life and > >>> > have written my own tags to do these > functions. I did > >>> previously look at the > >>> > effort required to update the current > tags to the > >>> latest dojo but it would > >>> > be very time consuming and far easier to > start from > >>> scratch. I think a > >>> > large problem with the current dojo tags > are that it > >>> is very complicated to > >>> > do simple things (dojo itself is > complicated > >>> relatively). > >>> > > >>> > With JQuery it is quite easy to do most > of the things > >>> mentioned so am not > >>> > sure on the benefits of tags. That said - > if you made > >>> the tags powerful > >>> > enough - they can be quite useful in a > large number of > >>> cases - however the > >>> > flipside is as you add functionality, > maintainability > >>> becomes an issue. > >>> > > >>> > btw. If anybody is interested in some > JQuery tags I > >>> could start a plugin..? > >>> > -- > >>> > View this message in context: > >>> > http://www.nabble.com/-PROPOSAL--Deprecate-or-remove-Dojo-plugin-tp18573704p18587222.html > >>> > Sent from the Struts - Dev mailing list > archive at > >>> Nabble.com. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > For additional commands, e-mail: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> "Hey you! Would you help me to carry the > stone?" > >>> Pink Floyd > >>> > >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > "Hey you! Would you help me to carry the > stone?" Pink Floyd > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > HTH, Ted > http://husted.com/ted/blog/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
