davebalmer

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by davebalmer 16y ago
Oh how I wish. Actually, in the mobile space, this is happening. Slowly. Painfully at times, but it's not exactly too far down the horizon (bliss).
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by davebalmer 16y ago
Wow, if you code half as well as you can over-generalize, you must be a JavaScript god . But seriously, frameworks and smaller code libraries should be used when do something useful. If you don't find a framework useful, don't use it. And
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by davebalmer 16y ago
Yes, it's a giant conspiracy by us "framework" developers to try and save you a little coding effort. :)
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by davebalmer 16y ago
Agree with a better comparison being XUI, but adding "jQuery" to the description gets more attention. I have to say though John that your view of what makes a great app framework doesn't necessarily matter to everyone. I think your philosop
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by davebalmer 16y ago
Have to agree with John here. All the zepto promotion efforts I've seen have been playing up "jQuery-compatible", but that's pretty misleading. Seems like using the "jQuery" buzzword to get attention, but not exactly delivering the goods.
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by davebalmer 16y ago
Hey folks, appreciate the comments! Another relevant thread you might want to check: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1415480 @metachris sorry the video format didn't work for you, but you're lucky I made quite a few takes with it -- m
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by davebalmer 16y ago
The Makefile does a few things: - it runs all the JavaScript files through jsure (similar to jslint but more configurable) to look for possible parse errors in the code - it builds jo.js, which is the library baked into a single file - if y
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by davebalmer 16y ago
I'm a Yahoo! webdev alum, and I have most of the original YUI team on my buddy list. I've paid a lot of attention to YUI3, and have some differing opinions in our approaches; probably enough to warrant a blog post... thanks for the topic id
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by davebalmer 16y ago
Look for some soon. I was caught a little off guard with the pre-release of Jo, so I'm scrambling a little. :)
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by davebalmer 16y ago
Hopefully this month I'll have something more official. The news got leaked on Twitter a bit early, but hey, nothing like instant feedback to keep the fingers flying. :)
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by davebalmer 16y ago
That said, it does play nicely inside browser-based apps, and should work alongside jQuery and other browser-centric libraries. That's something that may get explored later, but downloadable apps are definitely Jo's focus from an architectu
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by davebalmer 16y ago
@jafl5272 -- Jo is brand new, so it's nowhere near the maturity of YUI or jQuery yet, agreed. As for progressive loading, Jo is geared more for downloadable apps (using PhoneGap, OSX widgets, Opera widgets, Chrome Apps), so the rules of eng