[LRUG] ExtJS

[Simon Tokumine]

Hi all,

Thanks very much for the response. After a good day of trawling through half
documented graveyarded code, we've decided to take Dan's advice and cut back
on our GUI flight of fancy. We'll stick as close to HTML/jQuery as possible
with mini diversions into the huge (but incredibly documented compared to
ExtJS) YUI for areas where there is no suitable plugin.

Many thanks again for all your advice, now if anyone has any YUI horror
stories I'm all ears....

Si


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Damian Janowski
<damian.janowski at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Simon Tokumine <simon at japancentre.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > We are Rails users using jQuery, and are considering using ExtJS for
> parts
> > of our backend. Before we start does anyone on LRUG have any
> success/horror
> > stories with ExtJS and rails? Any easy gotchas?
>
> Adding to what Paul and Dan say -- I also dislike the Windows XP look
> that you get (even if your users are on another OS). But mainly, I
> think the web is offering much more flexible and usable UIs. And
> people are interacting with websites probably more than with desktop
> applications. So building a web app on a Windows- (or desktop-)
> looking platform doesn't seem to me like the way to go.
>
> However, there is the case for companies that are not interested in
> innovation -- "we currently have a desktop app and want to make it an
> intranet. Just replicate our desktop app's look and feel."
>
> Oh, and I agree I documentation is far from abundant.
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