On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:29 AM, aw <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 10, 1:15 am, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Personally, I would say forget ExtJS, compared to Cappuccino its streets > behind: > > > > http://cappuccino.org/ > > > > Easily the most exciting UI framework out there right now > > Perhaps I should add that I need sophisticated grids: > http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/#sample-3 > > Hmmm... Cappuccino is the Apple AppKit, except it runs in the browser. Here's a cool example of a pure Cappuccino app: http://280slides.com/Editor/
Further, with Atlas ( http://280atlas.com/ ) you can take the output from NIB (Next Interface Builder, AKA OS X Interface Builder) files and literally run them in the browser. You have the full power of OS X's UI running in the browser. There's nothing in my experience that even comes close. > A bunch of options like JQuery UI, YUI, and from what I see from > Cappuccino don't seam to come close to the kind of widget > sophistication that I am seeing in ExtJS. Hence, ExtJS is my front > runner. (Flex is ultimately competition, but I don't like dealing > with Flash.) > I actually think that Cappuccino with Atlas is more powerful than Flash. > > I have a sprinkling of JQuery usage in my app already, and my initial > thought was to simply use the JQuery adapter for ExtJS. > Alternatively, I could probably just rewrite my JQuery code in ExtJS > -- assuming then I would take the route to provide a jsArtifact for > ExtJS. > > My real concern is factors like security and leveraging things like > SHtml.link -- I don't want an oil and water scenario. I still need to > deep dive into ExtJS, but wanted to float the idea in case someone was > aware of a red flag before I wasted too much time. > There are lots of things that can be done to integrate Lift's statefulness (server-side functions closing over state mapped to GUIDs sent to the client side) via JSON and Ajax/Comet. It will take a little thinking to get things right, but I have a high degree of confidence that it can be made right. > > It doesn't sound like anybody is using ZK [1], eh? > > [1] http://zkoss.org/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<liftweb%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
