Comments on: Bespin now learning some art in the Dojo http://almaer.com/blog/bespin-now-learning-some-art-in-the-dojo blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tony http://almaer.com/blog/bespin-now-learning-some-art-in-the-dojo/comment-page-1#comment-40487 Tony Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:11:46 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-40487 I'm with Kris in that it's great to see dojo being used here. I'm a developer that has now spent time developing with prototype, jquery and dojo all in actual useful cases. They all have their place but I'm also capable of saying no one library is the best for everything. For an application this size and complexity, I think dojo is the perfect fit with great out of the box building blocks. And I further support Kris's mention of dojo's data interface. I've recently been playing with it as a means of accessing a jsonREST rails backend and it's brilliant. I’m with Kris in that it’s great to see dojo being used here.

I’m a developer that has now spent time developing with prototype, jquery and dojo all in actual useful cases. They all have their place but I’m also capable of saying no one library is the best for everything. For an application this size and complexity, I think dojo is the perfect fit with great out of the box building blocks.

And I further support Kris’s mention of dojo’s data interface. I’ve recently been playing with it as a means of accessing a jsonREST rails backend and it’s brilliant.

]]> By: Kris Zyp http://almaer.com/blog/bespin-now-learning-some-art-in-the-dojo/comment-page-1#comment-40484 Kris Zyp Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:49:02 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-40484 Dion, this is great to hear, I am really excited about Bespin and where you are going with it. It looks awesome, and I think Dojo will be a great foundation for it. BTW, have you looked at possibly using Dojo's REST functionality for your client/server communication? I haven't looked into Bespin enough yet, but I am really hoping that you will be supporting open standards-based communication so that it can be readily integrated with existing REST servers. Dojo's HTTP/REST support follows RFC 2616 very closely, and may be a useful for Bespin. I think I heard Kevin was looking at using Webdav, which of course is simply an extension to RFC 2616, so it would be very natural to extend the existing functionality in Dojo for this aspect of the client-server communication. Some of our new REST stuff also ties in really nicely with Comet. Dion, this is great to hear, I am really excited about Bespin and where you are going with it. It looks awesome, and I think Dojo will be a great foundation for it. BTW, have you looked at possibly using Dojo’s REST functionality for your client/server communication? I haven’t looked into Bespin enough yet, but I am really hoping that you will be supporting open standards-based communication so that it can be readily integrated with existing REST servers. Dojo’s HTTP/REST support follows RFC 2616 very closely, and may be a useful for Bespin. I think I heard Kevin was looking at using Webdav, which of course is simply an extension to RFC 2616, so it would be very natural to extend the existing functionality in Dojo for this aspect of the client-server communication. Some of our new REST stuff also ties in really nicely with Comet.

]]> By: kourge http://almaer.com/blog/bespin-now-learning-some-art-in-the-dojo/comment-page-1#comment-40469 kourge Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:17:34 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-40469 Darn, and here I thought Prototype is finally used for something it's best at: powering a rich, fat client. Darn, and here I thought Prototype is finally used for something it’s best at: powering a rich, fat client.

]]> By: Mislav http://almaer.com/blog/bespin-now-learning-some-art-in-the-dojo/comment-page-1#comment-40467 Mislav Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:36:18 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-40467 You're very easily influenced to leave the library of your choice for another which doesn't even offer you enough benefits to warrant a real blog post in which we might actually *learn* something from your experience, apart from "Prototype is nice and jQuery is nice but Dojo is also nice". You’re very easily influenced to leave the library of your choice for another which doesn’t even offer you enough benefits to warrant a real blog post in which we might actually *learn* something from your experience, apart from “Prototype is nice and jQuery is nice but Dojo is also nice”.

]]> By: Nate Cavanaugh http://almaer.com/blog/bespin-now-learning-some-art-in-the-dojo/comment-page-1#comment-40461 Nate Cavanaugh Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:26:07 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-40461 Heya Dion, I'm kind of curious, and maybe you can speak more, but why dojo vs. something like YUI, Ext, or even any of the lesser ones like Qooxdoo, etc (of course, ubiquity speaks a lot for a project), but I'm curious as to the overall benefits that drove you to adopt dojo above the others. Heya Dion,
I’m kind of curious, and maybe you can speak more, but why dojo vs. something like YUI, Ext, or even any of the lesser ones like Qooxdoo, etc (of course, ubiquity speaks a lot for a project), but I’m curious as to the overall benefits that drove you to adopt dojo above the others.

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