[Solar-talk] UI Widgets

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On 7/18/06, Paul M Jones wrote:
> I'm very interested in seeing something like this.  Clay has been
> looking at Dojo, and while it's very powerful, it seems overly
> complex; at the same time, it doesn't produce valid standard XHTML.
> So we're thinking that UI widgets should be done Prototype/
> Scriptaculous.  In particular I crave a date/calendar popup.  Is that
> the kind of thing you're talking about?

Well, the library I've mentioned is certainly related to choose and
integrate a javascript library, Ajax and effects and such things, but
to begin I was thinking smaller and dreaming with a collection of
pieces of fine XHTML highly customizable with CSS (so a consistent
naming convention would be a requirement). Menus, breadcrumbs, tabs,
boxes, lists, columns, dialogs, forms, and "isolated" things like
these. It may sound like "a holy grail", but I guess we all have a
collection of markups we frequently reuse in a manner or another. The
idea was to try to extract a "standard" from them and make them useful
for everybody. Anyway... I'll be working on this idea and then bring
some practical examples.

About javascript, have you considered the Yahoo! UI Library? I've
started to work with it and since them all other libraries were
extinct (weren't them? :-)). I'd choose it instead of Dojo and
definitely instead of Scripaculous, although I like Prototype a lot.
It's consistent, robust, has amazingly wonderful docs and they also
have a "more pragmatic" and ready-to-use toolset. In any case, these
are the three big players in the game...

cheers,
rodrigo moraes / brazil