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[EP-tech] Re: EPrints and jQuery

Yup I agree Jan.
I'll be setting up a site for eprints devs/dev talks soonish, where we can elaborate/make decisions on such development points. 

Seb.

On 14/10/13 12:27, Jan Ploski wrote:

jQuery - yes, please.

One thing that comes to mind is that it has a much nicer, working and
more customizable autocomplete widget. I've had to fight against bugs in
the Prototype version included in EPrints 3.0.5 (incompatibilities with
different browsers with resulting strange layout problems).

But the main thrust is that "everyone" uses jQuery (UI), but not so many
people use Prototype today, which makes EPrints look not so
developer-friendly from the inside out:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=jquery#q=prototype%2C%20jquery&cmpt=q

sf2 wrote:

Hi all,

EPrints has been using the Prototype JS library since version 3 - at the
time there was as many good reasons to use Prototype than to use jQuery
but now it seems that the latter has been more widely adopted.

Migrating to jQuery is not simple. Most if not all the EPrints
javascript extensions rely on Prototype one way or another, as well as a
number of core UI components/plug-ins so a migration would mean
re-writing many core components and it would also break some of your
custom code.

However using jQuery comes with many advantages including jQuery UI and
its widely used UI components (read http://jqueryui.com/ for more
information) and it would make sense to move towards jQuery in the next
major/long-term release of EPrints.

What are your views about this potential move?

Seb.



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