Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Lenz
Am 03.05.2005 um 04:11 schrieb Ian Bicking: The Javascript development community is young in other ways. Public repositories and basic open source project management practices are uncommon. We're still getting over a stage where everything is presented as recipes instead of working code; I

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread David Fraser
Peter Hunt wrote: Hello everyone, A long time ago (before the advent of IronPython), I wrote a small Python module that compiled a python file to a JScript.NET http://JScript.NET file and compiled it. Seeing as JScript and JavaScript are very similar, I bet this could be very helpful.

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Chad Whitacre
Perhaps if we had better support in some browser -- and Firefox is the perfect candidate here -- to improve the development experience. Have you used Venkman? Venkman is Mozilla's javascript debugger. It runs OTB with the Mozilla suite but you need to do some gymnastics to get it to work with

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Steve Holden
Mike Orr wrote: Carlos Ribeiro wrote: Hi guys, Javascript seems to be everyone's little dirty secret. Everyone uses, most people don't like it. Some (like me) dislike it for no other reason than being another language that I have to use. Some others dislike it for being named Javasomething

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Chad Whitacre
Have you used Venkman? Venkman is Mozilla's javascript debugger. It runs OTB with the Mozilla suite but you need to do some gymnastics to get it to work with Firefox. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ Sorry, no time for gymnastics :-) Actually, I said the same thing until just now.

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Martijn Faassen
Donovan Preston wrote: On May 5, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: Well, guys, I like SF.net. I understand that many of you don't. I'm okay with that. I'm willing to bite the bullet and set things up, if we can all come to concensus about what should be done. Should I just

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
On 5/6/05, Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donovan Preston wrote: On May 5, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: Well, guys, I like SF.net. I understand that many of you don't. I'm okay with that. I'm willing to bite the bullet and set things up, if we can all

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Todd Grimason
* Steve Holden [2005-05-06 07:08]: Except that it didn't, of course. My own belief is that Javascript, like Perl, has suffered from the web-s 1990's programming with a trowel metaphor, because a bunch of clueless dweebs dsicovered they could often get 85% of a web job done by lifting

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
Why Plone? What's the point of using Plone if we simply want a mailing list? I was thinking a lot more would be involved than just a mailing list. If all we want is a mailing list, those are easy to get. I was thinking we'd have a Web site with FAQ's, documentation, etc., and maybe even some

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Mike Orr
Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: On a more serious tone, the idea itself has some merit. However, Plone carries a lot of overhead. I would rather prefer a lightweight framework for such 'plug ins'. I wondered a long time about doing some work with CherryPy along these lines, but I never had the time to

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Ian Bicking
On the topic of Javascript, I just thought I'd note the existance of WHAT-WG (http://whatwg.org/) the Web Application Spec (http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/), and the Web Form spec (http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/), which both deal with Javascript. The Web App

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-05 Thread Johnny deBris
Martijn Faassen wrote: I asked Infrae's resident Javascript guru (Guido Wesdorp), and he said he didn't know of such a advanced javascript forum. He had some discussions with other javascript hackers to set up such a thing, but they haven't done anything yet. Let me explain a bit: The

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-05 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
Hi guys, Javascript seems to be everyone's little dirty secret. Everyone uses, most people don't like it. Some (like me) dislike it for no other reason than being another language that I have to use. Some others dislike it for being named Javasomething (which is indeed something very strange).

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-04 Thread Martijn Faassen
Donovan Preston wrote: [snip] Before I reinvent the wheel of creating new mailing lists, I will spend some time scouring weblogs and web framework project pages for projects which are incorporating AJAX features (rails, etc). If I find another community which is suitable, I'll suggest

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-03 Thread Martijn Faassen
Donovan Preston wrote: [snip] The shared brain power of a new list and web site which attracted users from communities other than the Python community could be valuable, as well. At the same time, we could subtly enlighten people to the joys of Python just by exposing them to it. Sounds

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-03 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
On 5/3/05, Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donovan Preston wrote: [snip] The shared brain power of a new list and web site which attracted users from communities other than the Python community could be valuable, as well. At the same time, we could subtly enlighten people to the

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-03 Thread Donovan Preston
On May 3, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: On 5/3/05, Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donovan Preston wrote: [snip] The shared brain power of a new list and web site which attracted users from communities other than the Python community could be valuable, as well.

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-03 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
On 5/3/05, Donovan Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 3, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: On 5/3/05, Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donovan Preston wrote: [snip] The shared brain power of a new list and web site which attracted users from communities

[Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
It sure would be nice to have a common JavaScript library that we could all share. People are wanting this for Aquarium, but I really don't want Aquarium to have its own JavaScript library. It's too much of a niche within a niche. Do you guys think it'd be possible to use the RoR one? I've

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 02 May 2005 20:24, Ian Bicking wrote: Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: Do you guys know of any other really solid JavaScript libraries? There's also LivePage, but I don't know that it's very well documented. Ditto Rails' prototype. I strongly prefer Javascript that is

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
I was meaning to look into Sarissa (http://sarissa.sourceforge.net/doc/) which was mentioned somewhere at some point fairly recently. It doesn't interact with specific server-side functionality, but we can whip that up quite easily, can't we? ;-) Wouldn't it be interesting if the web-sig

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread mike bayer
what kind of features are you looking for in these javascript libraries ? I see sarissa is just the XMLHttpRequest method tied to writing the guts of DOM objects, and then some more elaborate DOM inspection methods that seem less useful. it seems to me that the server-neutral javascript part of

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Ian Bicking
mike bayer wrote: what kind of features are you looking for in these javascript libraries ? I see sarissa is just the XMLHttpRequest method tied to writing the guts of DOM objects, and then some more elaborate DOM inspection methods that seem less useful. it seems to me that the

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Roberto Antonio Ferreira de Almeida
Ian Bicking wrote: Incidentally, the Rails people felt pretty strongly that innerHTML was the way to go, because DOM manipulation is hard to maintain, and innerHTML is very consistent across browsers. I had problems with innerHTML in pages served as application/xhtml+xml -- it doesn't work.

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
On 5/2/05, Shannon -jj Behrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sure would be nice to have a common JavaScript library that we could all share. People are wanting this for Aquarium, but I really don't want Aquarium to have its own JavaScript library. It's too much of a niche within a niche. Do

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Martijn Faassen
Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: I was meaning to look into Sarissa (http://sarissa.sourceforge.net/doc/) which was mentioned somewhere at some point fairly recently. It doesn't interact with specific server-side functionality, but we can whip that up quite easily, can't we? ;-) Wouldn't it be

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread mike bayer
Now I am beginning to find some time for my happy workflow hacking... and things have changed a lot, it seems. I think it's about time for it to happen. It may seem a little bit simplistic of my part, but I truly believe that the programmer's nirvana can only be attained when we manage to

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Hunt
Hello everyone, A long time ago (before the advent of IronPython), I wrote a small Python module that compiled a python file to a JScript.NET file and compiled it. Seeing as JScript and _javascript_ are very similar, I bet this could be very helpful. See

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread James Y Knight
On May 2, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Peter Hunt wrote: I envision a world where we can write something like: input type=button onclick=server.onButtonClick() / And it will do a server-side RPC to the onButtonClick() method, which could do something like this: def onButtonClick(ctx):    

Re: [Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

2005-05-02 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
I actually read the Dynamic HTML book and have a lot of good ideas on how to make a good JavaScript library. I was just hoping I wouldn't have to ;) I'm hoping Kupu meets my needs. JavaScript's not a bad language. It's just very misunderstood, very abused, and a bit undeveloped. It's really