JS Frameworks

[Colin Clark]

Eli,

Apologies for the delay in responding. This is a very interesting question.

At the moment, Fluid hasn't chosen a recommended JavaScript toolkit. 
We've done our initial implementation of the Lightbox in Dojo, but are 
continuing to compare and evaluate toolkits.

Our next step is to take the impending Reorderer framework 
service--which is based on the Lightbox code--and make it easy for 
non-Dojo toolkits to be plugged in and compared.  This will give us a 
common point of functionality with which to evaluate the available range 
of toolkits including YUI, JQuery, and Prototype/Scriptaculous. I hope 
we'll get to do some of this porting work the Fluid summit in September.

One of the key reasons we chose to go with Dojo initially is that we 
have a team of two developers (Simon and David) who are working with the 
Dojo community to add accessibility support to the Dijit suite of 
widgets for the Dojo 1.0 release.  This work is funded by the Mozilla 
Foundation and IBM as an extension to our work on Fluid.

Colin


Eli Cochran wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> Mara suggested that you were the place to start when asking about JS 
> frameworks. I'm curious about what discussions have gone on already 
> about JS frameworks both for Sakai and Fluid. I'd like to get the 
> history and get into the discussion.
> 
> Here is what I know so far:
> - You folks have been implementing the Lightbox component using Dojo.
> - The Chat tool in Sakai uses jQuery.
> 
> Can you tell me more about your choice to use Dojo. Is it just because 
> the Dojo library already has some accessibility hooks, or are there 
> other reasons?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eli
> 
> 

-- 
Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org