Lately, my PHP skills have been growing and I'm realizing that my applications are becoming more secure and stable (at least, that's how it appears on my localhost) and I've decided to take it up a notch. I've decided to implement an AJAX framework. I have looked through various frameworks and, truthfully, had an issue on which I should choose. I didn't really know a lot about AJAX frameworks, however, now that I'm slightly more familiar with AJAX frameworks I'm thinking that I like the EXT framework the best.
I've tried jQuery, dojo, YUI (2 and 3), and a few others and haven't been totally impressed with them as much as I have been with the EXT framework. What do you guys think?
Browse around the AJAX part of the documentation for a bit. The prototype & scriptaculous framework is also the one that frameworks like ruby on rails support
I've had no problems with the frameworks (both prototype, and scriptaculous which extends prototype).
Wow, I didn't realize prototype had so much support. What really impressed me about EXT is the UI library that is included with it. However, it's not very easy to change the basic backbone to change the looks of those layouts (etc) .... you can extend them and make them look the same by writing your own JS files, but it just seems hard to browse through all of the different files in that framework to change what you need to in order to get what you want.
Plus, EXT seems to force applications to be written entirely in JavaScript .... which seems to be a downside to me.
Can't you get a compressed gzipped version of both of those scripts without having to do it yourself from their websites? Do you know a good website that gives tutorials for those ajax frameworks?
GZip compression is done by your server on the fly... i couldn't get gzip compression to work on the server for .js files... stupid htaccess files... so i changed the extension to .php and served JS code up in it... that way the PHP engine gzips it automatically . Uses a little more memory to serve it that way, but much better to gzip it than not to.
Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check it out. I would like to write some of these ajax scripts myself so that I can understand the inner workings of why they write things the way they do ... or why they add certain things that I don't completely understand why it's added.
One thing I noticed about building websites using the .NET framework, some of the AJAX scripts used there are extremely interesting, but totally complex. I've noticed that Microsoft seems to add like 15 or 20 lines more than what they need ... seriously, it's horrible.
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