[Solar-talk] using js

[Paul M Jones]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Jeff Surgeson wrote:

>> Solar is likely to *un*-adopt Prototype and Scriptaculous, at least
>> as far as built-in helpers are concerned.  Clay and I talked about it
>> at some length (I think Rodrigo and I did too), and it's easier/
>> better/faster to use the "native" JS calls than the PHP-based helpers
>> that generate the JS.
>
> Is there a chance you will drop the those two libraries from the trunk
> completely?

That is the proposal, yes.


> If so are you looking at an alternative or just leaving it up to
> the individual to adopt what ever the choose?

Leaving it up to individuals.  There's a metric buttload of JS libs  
out there, and Solar picking one of them as the "official" one is  
(was) shortsighted.

Having said that, we do want to leave the generic JS lib helpers in  
place, things that help load the libs at the right time, etc.   
They'll probably need refactoring though.

Sorry for the surprise on this one.  :-(



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