On 4/23/07, Praveen Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
t Hello people Trying to look for the *best* perl web framework out there and looking for suggestions. I've looked at Catalyst, Jifty and bunch of other frameworks. My biggest gripe about these web frameworks is the lack of reusable UI controls aka ASP.Net. One reason ASP.Net has caught on so quickly is the availability of inexpensive and slick third party UI controls. Most geeks make lousy web designers and would rather fiddle with the back end server code than CSS and javascript. Is there a LAMP framework offering even close to what ASP.Net offers in terms of UI development? Look at http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Controls/Examples/Default/DefaultCS.aspx for inspiration.
I think that a lot of the reason is because the frameworks that you see are mostly based around perl and don't focus too much on the actual View but mostly on the Model and Controller. There are plenty of javascript frameworks (Dojo, YUI, OpenRico, MooFx, Script.aculo.us) that provide many and all of the same things that you are pointing to as available in ASP.Net. The problem/advantage with PERL based frameworks is that, of course, they give you MTOWTDI which means that you have to decide which one is best and most appropriate for what you need.
In my opinion, lack of rich controls is the biggest drawback of LAMP frameworks. We as geeks might not like to hear about it but average manager at a big corporation is still sold by slick presentation and not cool back-end technology. Maybe it's time for mod-perl geeks to get together and come up with an uniform API for web controls that can then be used by others to develop reusable controls.
Again, you are talking about client-side UI controls that belong in only one small subset of any given framework. You should be able to use any one of them that you want without problems.
-Praveen
Cheers, -- ~Tyler
