Dev at weitling wrote:
Hi Sylvain,
thanks for answering.
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Prototype/Scriptaculous has a smaller scope than Dojo that brings
loads of features. You don't have to use all of them though and can
strip down Dojo with the "compressor" they provides that embeds and
obfuscates everything you need in one file.
Prototype also considers that it "owns" the page and tweaks the
prototype of many built-in classes such as Object, Array, Element,
etc. This makes code more compact but has the very important drawback
of breaking other libraries you would like to use in the same page
(particularly the "for (prop in object)" construct no more works as
expected).
Yes, recently I've seen that, too, using Scriptaculous in a current
PHP project. Seems rather invasive.
As far as documentation is concerned, I have no opinion, digging in
the code more often than reading the documentation :-P
Thank god docs of Dojo have improved, the only book I could find is
cheap but rather thin ("Dojo Toolkit. schnell+kompakt" by Michael
Seemann).
You german people have lots of german books ! Tech writers in France
often write in english for US publishers... who sometimes also publish a
french translation!
That being said, upgrading to Dojo 1.x is definitely something to be
done. I personally don't have the cycles for it though...
And I lack the knowledge :-/
Where do you live? So I can start a pilgrimage to convince you ;-)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pechabou,+fr
But as for every pilgrimage, you have to walk on your knees all the way :-P
Sylvain
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