I might be not objective since I'm in love with jQuery, but imho, choosing jQuery over others will avoid you to have a *big* technical debt.
You might be interested by this reading: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/03/26/jquery-triumphant-march-to-success/ For your tab component, what about this one: http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/ It's skinnable, customizable, and it should be easy to integrate it into tapestry5 (and to contribute it to http://github.com/got5/tapestry5-jquery;)) On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Kalle Korhonen <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have an older T4 app that I'm going to upgrade to T5. It's not a > full RIA but nevertheless a fairly fancy, interactive web app with > drag & drop, ajax file uploads etc. The UI of the app was based on > Prototype and Dojo 0.4.3 which served me well at the time despite of > being a bit on the heavy side. I haven't really used JQuery in > production apps yet but I wouldn't mind switching but if I do, I don't > want to drag Prototype around with it. There are T5 integration libs > available both for a newer version of Dojo and for JQuery. It might be > marginally easier to adjust the existing Javascript for Dojo than > having to rewrite everything with JQuery but as said, I'm fine with > the cost. Performance always matters, so load times, execution > performance, ability to use CDN etc. all matter. I don't mind filing > an occasional issue, but I don't want to get sucked into seriously > having to debug and maintain another add-on library so I'd prefer > something relatively stable even if it didn't have all the latest > bells and whistles. Of ready-made components, only a good, skinnable, > customizable and extensible tab component is relevant to me. Now, why > would I choose JQuery over the other choices? I'd really love to hear > comments from people who've had experience of multiple Javascript > libraries and have made a switch to JQuery or perhaps gone the other > way. > > Kalle > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
