hi jeremy, i recommend you using Qooxdoo. it is, simply, the greatest RIA JavaScript framework with exclusive GUI toolkit. It also has Python RPC which you can use.
see qooxdoo at: http://qooxdoo.org if you face any problems with integrating qooxdoo and pylons, just let me know. On Dec 16, 1:26 pm, Jeremy <morel.jer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > This thread is going to be a little off topic, I'm sorry for that, but > I have no idea of who to ask or where to start with my problem. > > I've been developing for a few years now a simple issue tracking > system called Naphtaline (www.naphtaline.net) which aims at providing > non tech audiences with the basic commodities of issue tracking. The > website as it is now is quite frankly a big hack. Although it is quite > usable, it's not reliable and by many aspects lacks coherence. I > therefore decided to build it again from scratch using Pylons instead > of CherryPy in order to take advantage of its many embedded libraries > for database management, url management and overall stricter code > structure (and I needed that : the code that is running now is a > mess). And I feel that it was a good choice: I could rebuild my > application way more easily with Pylons. > > However when I asked my users what they'd like to see in the next > version, one thing came up loud and clear : they want a rich internet > application. Which means more ajax. A lot more. And it also means I > won't be able to do everything with pylons / sqlalchemy / mako > templates and a little bit of js. > > My main issue is that I have no idea of how to build a RIA. Should I > use my backend only to provide data to the client-side application ? > How should I store data in JS ? How should my code be structured ? > What are the best practices ? > > I searched the web but could only find posts addressing very specific > topics (such as: How to do object oriented programming with JS), none > talking about the basics of designing a RIA. > > Could you tell me what I should read ? Blog posts, tutorials, books, > web sites ? Or could you share with me your personal experiences ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-disc...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
