[Framework-Team] Re: new KSS versions

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Florian Schulze wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:03:03 +0100, Balazs Ree 
> <ree-DIAULbSzolw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Framework Team,
>>
>> we submitted the following plip:
>>     
>> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/215
>>
>> We suggest to use the following new kss package versions for Plone 3.1:
>>
>> kss.core
>>
>> New kss.core version 1.4, currently on trunk, will be ready to be
>> released in January. At the moment the code is testable on trunk.
>>
>> Key improvements that come with the new version are:
>>
>>     * faster page load with base2
>>     * syntax improvements, eg. recursive value providers, comma
>> separated  selectors
> 
> The last one "comma separated selectors" is important IMO and makes for 
> smaller and more readable kss files.
> 
> As already pointed out in this thread, base2 and jQuery are almost 
> interchangeable for their selector capability. AFAIK both are really 
> fast and especially error free. I also heard jQuery is beginniung to 
> incorporate speed improvements from base2. Anyway, in KSS it's just a 
> few lines of code to switch and it can be done automatically by checking 
> which one is loaded. One thing just occured to me. I think jQuery tends 
> to use XPath like selector syntax instead of CSS3 in some special cases, 
> for kss files it would be desireable to be as CSS3 like as possible, so 
> this should also be a consideration.

If this last sentence mean that jQuery selector function mixes XPATH
syntax with CSS syntax, I think we should keep base2 inside KSS, in
order to keep K stylesheets coherent.

Which is what you are meaning, right ?

> 
> Regards,
> Florian Schulze
> 
> 


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