[wellwell-devel] CSS and Javascript Frameworks

[Jon Jensen]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Marty Tennison wrote:

> Since wellwell is designed to be a framework for building catalogs. 
> Would it be advantageous to incorporate a CSS and Javascript framework 
> (and perhaps others) to ease development?

Yes, definitely. It should perhaps be possible to switch to something 
else, but not choosing a JavaScript framework by default will greatly 
increase the work for new developers.

> I've been working with YAML (www.yaml.de) and jQuery (www.jquery.com) 
> lately.  I'm sure there are others to consider also.

jQuery is becoming very popular yet is more lightweight than e.g. YUI. I 
haven't used it myself, but several co-workers really like it.

> As more of a philosophical discussion, I'm wondering if, to keep 
> competitive, frameworks as they mature, need to incorporate other 
> frameworks to ease development as the environment becomes more complex. 
> Much in the same way interchange incorporates CPAN modules for specific 
> low level tasks, the framework for building catalogs might need to 
> incorporate underlying frameworks for visual design also.

I think that's a very good way of looking at it, yes.

Jon

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