On Oct 3, 3:23 pm, Sean Gilligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There also appear to be two versions of iui within the SVN repository: > * one in iui/js/iui.js (requires prototype.js) > * one in iui/iui/iui.js (doesn't require prototype.js) > > Does anyone know what the exact differences between these two are? Are > there any guidelines as to which one should be used in a given situation?
The non-Prototype.js library is a bit bigger (10kB vs 5kB). The one requiring Prototype.js also requires scriptaculous.js and effects.js, so while you save 5kB for iUI, you need another 140k of libraries to support it. You might get some payback by using Prototype.js's AJAX functions, however there are plenty very functional (and much smaller) AJAX libraries out there. You may be using other features of Prototype.js, but there are a couple of known incompatibilities with mobile Safari. Since Prototype.js makes no claims to support mobile Safari, it is unlikely that anything will be done in the short term to fix them. And there are likely quite a few that haven't been found. I don't know what the incompatibilities of the various bits of scriptaculous are with Mobile Safari. Due to the above, I wouldn't use either. It might be a worthwhile exercise to write a minimal AJAX and effects library specifically for mobile platforms, I've been thinking of doing that but I need a mobile Safari platform first. :-) Generic library functions tend to be much less efficient than those written for a specific purpose. That should count for quite a lot when using a small, mobile platform that doesn't have the processing power of a desktop. Generic libraries also likely have thousands of lines of unused (and possibly untested and buggy) code that you only stumble across when you most need them to work. -- Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to iphonewebdev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
