tjcrowder
18 Oct 2007, 5:23 AM
Hi all,
Just a brief note: Wow is ExtJS 2.0 impressive. (1.x may well be also, but I haven't used it.) The toolkit seems to have a lot of power, but with less complexity than many others - a great combination. I was curious today, for instance, to see how hard it was to make an element draggable. Answer:
new Ext.dd.DD("elementName");
Gosh, that was hard. Not sure I'm willing to do that much work, guys. ;)
The forms submission and validation stuff is another example of having powerful features that are really simple. I was blown away by how easily one can create a simple form, have some simple validations happen on the client with automagic feedback (e.g., field can't be blank, etc.), have it submitted to the server, have more complicated validations feeding into the same feedback mechanism ("that username already exists"), populating the form with existing information, etc. Dead easy to do, really powerful for your apps.
Nice work, guys and girls. I've looked at lots of toolkits in the last few weeks, and ExtJS looks like a real frontrunner. Jack, I'll send you a website quote after I finish my first pass at a real application.
Thanks all,
Just a brief note: Wow is ExtJS 2.0 impressive. (1.x may well be also, but I haven't used it.) The toolkit seems to have a lot of power, but with less complexity than many others - a great combination. I was curious today, for instance, to see how hard it was to make an element draggable. Answer:
new Ext.dd.DD("elementName");
Gosh, that was hard. Not sure I'm willing to do that much work, guys. ;)
The forms submission and validation stuff is another example of having powerful features that are really simple. I was blown away by how easily one can create a simple form, have some simple validations happen on the client with automagic feedback (e.g., field can't be blank, etc.), have it submitted to the server, have more complicated validations feeding into the same feedback mechanism ("that username already exists"), populating the form with existing information, etc. Dead easy to do, really powerful for your apps.
Nice work, guys and girls. I've looked at lots of toolkits in the last few weeks, and ExtJS looks like a real frontrunner. Jack, I'll send you a website quote after I finish my first pass at a real application.
Thanks all,