Re: Rialto Browser UI framework

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron

I know only a little, so here comes my opinions and questions.  :-)  
There is jQuery UI that has some of the widgets. After that are lots of 
plugins - no need to write your own. Do those cover your need for widgets?

Of course, YMMV with all the various manifestations of scrolling 
galleries and all - not all are worth using.

Vern

Aaron Bartell wrote:
> Hi Vern,
>
> jQuery seems to be good if you are just looking for plumbing, but I am also
> looking for a solid set of UI widgets so I don't have to develop those from
> the ground up.  Dojo is starting to make more progress on that front.
>
> Aaron Bartell
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > Hi Aaron
> >
> > It seems you can spend a lot of time looking for the perfect framework,
> > or settle on something more generic like jQuery and then spend all your
> > time looking for the perfect gallery or grid or whatever.   ;-)
> >
> > The chart you referred to that compares various frameworks, well, it
> > seems that jQuery has a lot of things covered, as does Dojo and a couple
> > others. One does end up, based on my limited experience, doing maybe a
> > little more work with some of these. But the plugins for jQuery can give
> > us so much.
> >
> > I think we are using jQuery quite a bit here - the green-haired kid
> > prefers it, at least up to now.
> >
> > Thoughts from the peanut gallery!
> > Vern
> >
> > Aaron Bartell wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am looking for alternatives to ExtJS, because of the licensing
> > > complications, and have found Rialto:
> > > http://rialto.improve-technologies.com/wiki/
> > >
> > > Rialto is released under the Apache license:
> > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
> > >
> > > It has an approach similar to ExtJS in that you configure ui widgets and
> > >       
> > add
> >     
> > > them to a form or grid or etc.
> > >
> > > One issue I see is that it isn't as popular as I'd hoped (see the support
> > > link and look at the amount of emails on the Yahoo forum)
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > > Aaron Bartell
> > >
> > >       
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