[MTOS-dev] [ProNet] Javascript Library Standardization

[Bud Gibson]

I second Su's points in favor of jQuery.  YUI is a bit of a pig.

However, if YUI leads to a usable wysiwyg editor, I'll switch my vote.

On Jan 23, 2008 4:58 PM, Timothy Appnel <tim at appnel.com> wrote:

> On 1/23/08, Chad Everett <2008 at everitz.com> wrote:
>
> >  I have to say that I actually don't like YUI.
>
> I haven't looked at it and haven't spent too much time doing
> JavaScript code, but I don't like the fact that ever tutorial, cool
> trick and innovative design widget I've seen is NOT using YUI.
> Assuming I haven't overlooked some great innovations, it would seem to
> me that standardizing on YUI would remove a lot of the value I
> expected such a move would deliver. Count mine as a vote against YUI.
>
> What does Six Apart have against Prototype or jQuery that they would favor
> YUI?
>
> >  It is an advantage that it doesn't come from your own servers, I guess,
> so
> > bandwidth is a potential savings, but it does come from somewhere,
> meaning
> > your clients are going to have to get it.  If you're worried about
> bandwidth
> > that much, then it could be an issue.  You could use expires headers and
> > versioning to take care of that to some degree if you really care that
> much.
> >  And from what I've seen in my limited testing, YUI sucks - both in
> terms of
> > the amount of bandwidth it uses and in the usability.
>
> Chad I think you are overlooking browser caching here. Coming from one
> source the library should get pulled from the local cache no matter
> which site is using it.
>
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