Frameworks, the final decision

We started a new cool project the other week. The function itself might not be extremely sexy but we have an modern and bold client on this project so we were able to sell in some cool client side features for the first time in ages. (My memory lasts somewhere between a month and the latest project).I have posted numerous times about why it’s good with [tags]JavaScript[/tags] [tags]framework[/tags]s and I have spent a lot of time reading and learning the various frameworks that are mature enough these days and find out that the Yahoo User Interface ([tags]YUI![/tags]) fits best for now. So we started to use the YUI! for some time and suddenly I ran across YUI-EXT which is awsome. It’s not only very functional, it’s coded in a way that even I with only 15 years programming experience can understand and follow what’s going on. Feel free to compare with prototype.js for example.

Anyway, after spending some days with YUI-EXT, which by the way is undergoing a namechange to only Ext now, I found a few other domino freaks out on the Ext boards. By following some links I found that there are atleast three different domino web projects around today. All of them are mentioned in CodeStores post over here, read the comments. I should have seen this earlier but due to some changed attitude at my job I simply can’t follow the scene that much anymore. Spending some time today I also learned that Eli Harris (Does he blog?) and Rich Waters has started a project that will develop a javascript framework for domino. I will follow this project closely and I wish them all good. Unfortunately I currently can’t contribute to this project for now, but that I might change.

March 3rd, 2007 in Uncategorized | tags: ,
  • Fredrik Stöckel

    Ext is great. I’m currently using it in one project of our projects, and it’s a real time-saver. I bet it will be even better/flexible without the YUI dependencies (jquery is more light-weight).

  • Joche

    Always nice to hear that we aren’t alone. Personally I’m not too worried about the sizes of the frameworks. Cache is my friend! :-) In this case it’s just an additional license to read throw and get approved by our customers.

    Have you looked into the other domino web tools?

  • http://jackratcliff.com Jack Ratcliff

    Have you had a chance to review Domino Web Tools (DWT)? That’s my OpenNTF project and I’m trying to gather all of the feedback I can to improve it. Your opinion and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Jack

    Here’s the source code:
    http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/Domino%20Web%20Tools

    Here’s the online demo:
    http://jackratcliff.com/jratcliff/dwt/dwt-demo.nsf/main.html

  • http://www.rich-waters.com/blog Rich Waters

    Thanks for the mention :) Seems like we’ve peaked quite a few peoples interest.
    I don’t think that Eli blogs, but our project is really building up (we have 11 members total now). Keep an eye on the sourceforge project as we’ll be posting some updates out there soon.

    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dominoext

  • http://www.wissel.net/ Stephan Wissel

    Yeah ext is really nice. However you also might consider Dojo for the simple fact, that Dojo has been selected as IBM’s standard toolkit. So you can expect Dojo being used for Websphere and Domino in the future.
    :-) stw

  • Joachim Dagerot

    Stephan: Yes, DOJO has definitely been along the frameworks we have considered. However, until they come up with some decent documentation we will not adopt it. I understand that there will be a major release this summer, maybe that will be accompanied by documentation.

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