Re: The future of gitweb - part 2: JavaScript

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Petr Baudis wrote:

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:34:30PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Petr Baudis wrote:

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  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?

  Unfortunately, it was few years back so I don't remember clearly
anymore - it certainly was not a very educated guess, however, since I'm
not really a JavaScript hacker. Possibly I just stumbled on a nicer
guide for MooTools than jQuery at that time. By now, it's quite possible
that jQuery is a friendlier alternative.

Well, I am also partial to MooTools.  I haven't examined all JavaScript
frameworks, or did examination in much detail, but from jQuery, MooTools
and YUI I think MooTools looks best.  jQuery looks a bit too little,
being mainly about DOM manipulation (though it has lots of plugins), YUI
being a bit too much (gitweb doesn't need and shouldn't need all this);
MooTools look about right (and has More and forge / plugins)... and is
second most popular after jQuery ;-)

But I'm willing to be persuaded.

What gitweb needs currently (meaning existing JavaScrip and patches
in flight):
 * support for old browsers that might not have findElementsByClassName
   of querySelectorAll
 * formatting Date in RFC2822-like format
 * event delegation (live events)
 * support for onprogress for XHR, emulated if necessary
 * attaching / detaching simple floating menu

References:
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* http://jqueryvsmootools.com/ (by MooTools developer)
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/394601/which-javascript-framework-jquery-vs-dojo-vs

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Jakub Narebski
Poland