Re: [Geoprisma-dev] #9250 (Add jQuery Tools to base install) – Plone

[Alexandre Dube]

Yves,

  OK, I understand better as well.  I'll simply point out a quote you used :

from jQuery Tools : "Let's face it: do you really need
drag-and-drop, resizable windows or sortable lists in your web
applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are
different ... What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions,
overlays, high usability, striking visual effects ..."


  Well, a website is not a desktop application, but GeoPrisma is.  ExtJS 
has so much tools and cool stuff to offer (like panels, tree, toolbars, 
actions, etc.) that it would be hard to make a jQuery Tools wrapper for 
OpenLayers intead of ExtJS.  And having "some" parts removed and 
replaced by jQuery would sound kinda "hybrid"...

  It would be possible to have some tools created in jQuery Tools, but 
not all.  So a jQT "drawmode" would have its limits, but would be faster 
and better than html only.  So, in the end, useful but with its limits.

  My 2 cents,

Alexandre

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Alexandre Dubé
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