I don't have a strong opinion here, but look at what you just said: Pros for keeping helpers: Lots of projects use them
Pros for removing actionwebservice, pagination, etc.: unmaintained, better alternatives exist (e.g. will_paginate) or can be made easily (e.g. auto_complete) The reasons for the proposed patch are "the functionality isn't great" plus that it promotes accessibility, not just for screen readers but for things like search engines. That's actually my most important concern... It sounds like the opposition is mostly that there isn't an alternative/better implementation for the js helpers. So, let me ask a different question: would everyone be more receptive to removing the javascript helpers if an alternative existed? The UJS plugin was a decent idea, and the patches attached to the ticket here are not bad either. Or, is it that removing them is off the table, period? (I can imagine arguments in favor of having a default JS plugin, but I'm not convinced by any of them) Sujal On Jul 8, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Michael Koziarski wrote: > >>> Lack of feature is not a feature. >> >> I think it is. Otherwise we'd have ActionWebService, pagination, and >> acts_as_list in core. > > ActionWebService and pagination were unmaintained with better > alternatives out there (REST and will_paginate). acts_as_list was a > close call but each of the other acts was unmaintained and essentially > broken, leaving one in there seemed unreasonable. > > auto_complete was a tiny tiny wrapper around scriptaculous > functionality and in_place_editing was too restrictive and tightly > coupled. > > Either way, there's no reason to remove those features except for some > ascetic sense of satisfaction which could be drawn. If you don't like > them you can just stop using them. There's no impact with having them > there for applications which don't use them. > > > -- > Cheers > > Koz > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
