On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:54:53AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Unfortunately the decision to use JavaScript framework brings its own > > new problems. > > > > First issue is which JavaScript framework or library to use: > > * jQuery (lightweight, most popular, used e.g. by MediaWiki) > > * MooTools (lightweight, 2nd most popular, opbject-oriented) > > * YUI, The Yahoo! User Interface Library > > * other: Prototype, Dojo, ExtJS, SproutCore,... > > Girocco uses MooTools, and I also used it in an old private branch > of gitweb. I have had pretty good experience with it. But since I wasn't > able to find anyone to maintain Girocco's gitweb (or even keep it in > sync with upstream) and the patch flow to core git has dried up, it's > probably not too relevant argument. :-) Thanks. The information about MooTools is certain helpful. Do you remember why did you choose MooTools from other existing JavaScript frameworks, including more popular jQuery? > > So what are your ideas and comments on the issue of JavaScript code > > and JavaScript libraries / frameworks in gitweb? > > It seems most common sense to use CDN by default but allow providing > pre-downloaded file with the library at build time as an alternative. This seems to be a consensus. Now what's left is to worry about plugins, extensions etc. which would be helpful for gitweb JavaScript use, but are not in core provided by CDN. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html