Never used ZendX_Jquery for the exact reasons Benjamin's stated as reasons to abandon it, so that's an "aye" vote from me.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Benjamin Eberlei <kont...@beberlei.de>wrote: > Hello everyone, > > 2 years ago I was pretty sure of the Dojo and jQuery components/integration > into ZF. I have since changed my mind radically. I do maintained the jQuery > component but I would suggest to drop it for 2.0 for the following reasons: > > 1. It encourages writing no JS code at all, this will bite you in the ass > heavily if you find out that you need to customize the jQuery logic. > 2. It does not encourage javascript code re-use (jQuery plugins are the way > to go here) > 3. Heavy usage causes technical debt, it becomes impossible to rewrite your > app using proper jquery/javscript code. > 4. The PHP code required to write "ZendX JQuery" code is often more than > the jQuery required alone. > > Since only people that don't know javascript "benefit" from this extension > (in the short run) I suggest to drop it not to encourage people to run into > the wrong direction by using it (they will thank us later). > > I won't attempt to rewrite ZendX jQuery for 2.0 and i understand that this > means it will be dropped automatically. I suggest nobody to take over > maintenance for the previously discussed arguments. > > greetings, > Benjamin > -- Phil Brown Web Applications Developer
