Funny, I was actually just browsing the ExtJS site last night, and decided I would almost certainly never use it. Its way too crazy corporate.
I just hope Raphael and jQTouch will continue to be developed independently.
I just hope Raphael and jQTouch will continue to be developed independently.
It's great though if that's what you want. Something which is actively developed, support to hunt down and solve gnarly JS bugs if you need it and the documentation is extensive and covers everything you'd want to know.
Each to their own I guess :)
I've been developing with it for a couple of years and am quite happy with performance. Of course its going to be sluggish if you're targeting ie6 or something since the DOM the framework creates is HUGE.
Would be nice if they ditched support for ie6 which would probably help a lot with DOM bloat.
I was continually frustrated until I finally settled down with a glass of hot chocolate, some romantic mood lighting, and started getting... intimate... with the source code. Even then, with GXT, it would be some nasty fights with a mediating debugger when it would stop talking to me and I had to pry out the reasons why. Usually, it was because some event wasn't being listened to.
A bad library is much like a bad relationship. When it's good, it's really good, but you forget that far too much.
The highlighted quote from Adobe.
The fact that Sencha is named "in the tradition of Java".
If you look at the front page, you easily tell that it isn't oriented toward developers. Contrast this with, for example, http://jqtouch.com/, http://jquery.com, and http://raphaeljs.com/
When you finally figure out where the API and demos are, it still takes quite a while to figure out if some jslib things are supported -- for example, some kind of rich text editor. I just looked again, and I don't think it is, but really I'm not sure.
I very well may try it, though. I've been looking for a project that makes a beautiful, cohesive interface, largely for web game programming purposes. I'm glad to hear that, despite its homepage, developers find it to be a nice project to use =)
I found that rather chilling, myself.