I voted on the issue in JIRA, since i believe is an important part of Tapestry that needs to be revisited.
It seems a bit awkward to have a project called tapestry-core that depends in two third-party javascript libraries. It's not just java developers who are affected by using Prototype,but also designers, as it is the case in my project. I would be very interested to see what are the proposals to move away from depending in Prototype towards a javascript neutral platform, that allows for extension. Angelo Chen wrote: > > > Totally agreed with this, removing dependency is a good step, replacing > Prototype with jQuery will have the same issue when a better framework > comes > in the future. I use jQuery with T5, it works quite well. > > > Onno Scheffers-3 wrote: >> >>> >>> I agree with you. Most T5 users have projects that rely on Prototype >>> now, so plain switching to jQuery would break backward compatibility. >> >> >> >> I agree as well. But I don't think there's a need to play the >> backward-compatibility card here since removing the dependencies doesn't >> need to break backward compatibility. >> If Tapestry doesn't depend on any framework at all (just plain >> Javascript), >> extensions based on Prototype will still work if the libraries are >> included >> into the pages. It just means Tapestry can do without it. >> >> It makes the barrier to entry for developers much lower if if the >> developer >> can use whatever (s)he's used to. I know you can still use jQuery >> together >> with Prototype (that's what I do), but since Prototype is already there, >> a >> lot of developers will try and use that because they don't want to force >> any >> more js-libraries onto their users than the ones already being included. >> >> Learning another javascript framework or even having to rewrite existing >> Javascript code to another web-framework is time-consuming and >> error-prone. >> >> regards, >> >> Onno >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Switch-from-Prototype-to-jQuery--tp21750338p23963427.html > Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Switch-from-Prototype-to-jQuery--tp2245624p3056007.html Sent from the Tapestry Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
