[TYPO3-dev] Best practice for ajax use in BE?

[Fabien Udriot]

Hi,

I am coming a bit late on the topic but, anyway, I would like to share 
my experience about javascript libraries.

Personnally, I always have good experiences with JQuery
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/jquery/1.1.3/

In my opinion, it is a good candidate for the following reasons :

- the library has a light "footprint" (20kb)

- the documentation is well done and accessible :
   http://www.visualjquery.com/1.1.2.html
   more documentations and tutorials on http://jquery.com/

- It can be encapsulated to avoid conflicts with other libraries.

- It has been build with modularity in mind. So, it is possible to 
extend JQuery with hundred of plugins. JQuery is very good at DOM 
manipulation. By default, it has "limited" visual effects. However this 
can be changed here : http://jquery.com/plugins.

- The community is very active and its creator, John Resig, is almost a 
  genius of Javascript. (he works at Mozilla now.)

I could add more points... I discover new things every day, but here are 
the most important points for me.

kind regards,

Fabien

Francois Suter a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently developing a BE module and am thinking of using AJAX for 
> better user-experience. I know that the Prototype and Scriptaculous 
> libraries can be found in the "contrib" folder. There's also the Xajax 
> extension. And personally I'm rather fond of the moo.fx library.
> 
> Is there any recommended way of going about this?
> 
> Second questions: is there something similar to the eID mechanism in the 
> BE (so as to maybe load only a limited part of the BE)?
> 
> Thanks for any advice
>