[Framework-Team] PLIP #212: Use jQuery Javascript Library

Alec Mitchell apm13 at columbia.edu
Fri Dec 14 08:16:11 UTC 2007


On Dec 14, 2007 12:02 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> Previously Alec Mitchell wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 2007 9:27 AM, Florian Schulze <florian.schulze at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > Hi Framework Team!
> > >
> > >
> > > This is the other PLIP I want to propose besides #213. Martijn did all the
> > > hard work for it already.
> > >
> > > http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/212
> >
> > Just a comment from a non-FT member.  I think the work done for this
> > PLIP is great, and the simplification of the js code (less to
> > maintain) is very important.  However, I'm a bit disappointed that
> > it's not using KSS stylesheets to do the bindings, but instead using
> > jQuery directly.  We originally had one official way to do event
> > bindings (registerPloneFunction and friends), then we introduced KSS
> > which gave us a unified location to put bindings in a nice declarative
> > syntax.  Now instead of promoting the new way, we're adding a third
> > way (and reimplementing the first to use the third internally).  Why
> > aren't we unifying all of these?
>
> We don't load KSS for anonymous users due to its size.

Yes, but that's something we should be trying to fix (with better
compression on the RR ot KSS side, or just by encouraging people to
enable mod_deflate on their apache setup).  People are going to want
KSS-based functionality for anonymous users (even if Plone doesn't use
any right now).

Alec




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