[Chicago] [OT] Dijit Widgets

[Adam Jenkins]

I've heard good things, but I've also heard that YUI "forces" (defaults) you
into using Yahoo services?
Yea, I heard about Dojo having incomplete documentation. Could I ask, what
version were you using? They seem to be up to 0.9 and 1.0 beta.

On 11/1/07, Chuck Martin <cwurld at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> About 9 months ago, I tried using dojo with my Django
> site. Although dojo looked promising, I found it
> frustrating to use. The documentation was incomplete
> and sometimes contradictory. I had the most luck when
> I used their unit tests as documentation.
>
> About the same time, I also explored Yahoo's User
> Interface (YUI) library. I had much better luck with
> it. It has better documentation and lots of examples.
> So dropped Dojo and am using YUI exclusively.
>
> YUI also has an incredibly active Yahoo Users Group
> and it appears that they have people on the payroll
> who work on this code full time.
>
> One thing that real amazed me was I was using their
> layout code and ran into troubles with Safari. So I
> posted a note on the message board. Some one responded
> quickly and we exchanged several messages. I turns out
> he was one of the Yahoo developers. Since I could not
> resolve the problem, he actually logged into my
> webpage and worked on the problem for several hours.
> Unfortunately he could not resolve it, but I applaud
> the effort.
>
> I think putting YUI in the public domain is good for
> Yahoo and good for the rest of us. They get a huge
> group of testers for free and we get some pretty
> robust code.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> --- Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just recently caught up with Dojo...these neat-o
> > "Dijits" seem like
> > they're God's gift to Javascript, which makes me
> > sort of weary.
> > Especially as I can't find anyone actually using
> > them, and the demo
> > page on the main Dojo site appears broken.
> >
> > Is anyone using these things?  I'm really hoping
> > they're awesome, as I
> > dislike layout and design, and love data.
> >
> > Chris
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