[jQuery] Re: DateJS: Robust Date manipulation library
Thought I would jump in here and respond to a few of your comments/
suggestions...
First off, the Datejs library is actually built from 4 separate
modules (CultureInfo, core, parser, sugarpak). We compile all of them
together creating one date.js for each language/culture/country during
our final build process out of convenience for the end user developer.
You are more than welcome to piece together the modules as required.
Basically only the CultureInfo and core.js files are required. The
Parser and SugarPak are optional. The complete library is 25k because
theirs a lot going on. If you have recommendations for optimizations,
please let us know.
There's more information regarding the modules on the projects
GoogleCode home page. See http://www.datejs.com/googlecode/.
I guess it all comes down to how much Date processing power you
require. I imagine if you're building a scheduling app, the Datejs
library is going to come in real handy.
We compress with JSMin. Why? Because we like JSMin. There's something
very reassuring about Crockford's work and once gzipped, there's very
little difference between the various compression options/
combinations. Obviously if you pass the bits through Packer there's
some up front savings. The choice is yours.
@Nicolas Hoizey - I find your syntax suggestion of
Date.today().next('thursday') to be rather goofy. We have something
much cleaner, faster and explicit, Date.parse('next thursday'). What
happens if you don't pass the string parameter (eg
Date.today().next()) into .next(), what does that return? How is that
any different than leaving off the final function call on (3).days()?
which would return '3' by the way.
@Chris Jordan - Your sample tomorrow at 8:15PM is working now. You
caught a small bug that we weren't testing for.
Hope this helps answer some of your questions.
On Nov 29, 1:28 pm, Jörn Zaefferer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nicolas Hoizey schrieb:
This came through my feed reader this morning, and I thought it looked
like the kind of thing jQuerians might enjoy:
http://www.datejs.com/
I really don't like the weird syntax they use.
This Date.today().next().thursday(); is not real chaining IMHO. Even
more (3).days().ago();
Chaining suppose you can remove last call and still get something.
What would (3).days(); mean?
jQuery like syntax would probably be more Date.today().next('thursday');
Good point. You should post that to their mailing list.
Jörn
[jQuery] Re: DateJS: Robust Date manipulation library
This came through my feed reader this morning, and I thought it looked
like the kind of thing jQuerians might enjoy:
http://www.datejs.com/
I really don't like the weird syntax they use.
This Date.today().next().thursday(); is not real chaining IMHO. Even
more (3).days().ago();
Chaining suppose you can remove last call and still get something.
What would (3).days(); mean?
jQuery like syntax would probably be more Date.today().next('thursday');
-Nicolas
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[jQuery] Re: DateJS: Robust Date manipulation library
Nicolas Hoizey schrieb:
This came through my feed reader this morning, and I thought it looked
like the kind of thing jQuerians might enjoy:
http://www.datejs.com/
I really don't like the weird syntax they use.
This Date.today().next().thursday(); is not real chaining IMHO. Even
more (3).days().ago();
Chaining suppose you can remove last call and still get something.
What would (3).days(); mean?
jQuery like syntax would probably be more Date.today().next('thursday');
Good point. You should post that to their mailing list.
Jörn
[jQuery] Re: DateJS: Robust Date manipulation library
25k is a lot for Javascript, yes but include it in the bottom of your page and the 25k will be the last to process while not holding your page captive. This works great for anything form related because date entry is usually lower in the page/form. For dates, functionality matters over size. Marc Grabanski http://marcgrabanski.com On Nov 27, 8:12 pm, Erik Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, This came through my feed reader this morning, and I thought it looked like the kind of thing jQuerians might enjoy: http://www.datejs.com/ It's a Date library with lots of parsing capabilities and jQuery style chainable syntactic sugar. It's ~25k minified (!), so it's probably not for everyone, but I can imagine a lot of places where something like this would be very helpful. Cheers! --Erik
[jQuery] Re: DateJS: Robust Date manipulation library
that's pretty dang cool. I like the syntactic sugar. I was amazed that for all it's coolness when I entered tomorrow at 8:15PM that it understood that as tomorrow at 8:15AM... it ignored my AM/PM designation! It only works off of a 24 hour clock. That's a little disappointing, but not so much as it's file size. Still it's pretty sweet. :o) Chris On Nov 28, 2007 2:03 PM, Jörn Zaefferer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Beeson schrieb: Hello all, This came through my feed reader this morning, and I thought it looked like the kind of thing jQuerians might enjoy: http://www.datejs.com/ It's a Date library with lots of parsing capabilities and jQuery style chainable syntactic sugar. It's ~25k minified (!), so it's probably not for everyone, but I can imagine a lot of places where something like this would be very helpful. Thats good stuff. I like how it solves only Date related problems, would be nice if libraries could use that as a base. Though for that to happen its currently too big. Maybe they could split it into modules... Jörn -- http://cjordan.us
