[TYPO3-core] [Noise] Google releases AJAX toolkit

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi Michael,

Michael Scharkow wrote:
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
> 
>> PS: I still favour the
>> lets-pick-a-small-toolkit-and-do-a-TYPO3-conversion-on-it-approach.
>> That is take the code and run (aka "fork").
> 
> I'm not even sure *what* to convert specifically for TYPO3 in e.g.
> prototype.js - it's simply a collection of smart convenience methods for
> doing DOM manipulation and AJAX calls in JS, nothing more, no PHP or
> whatever integration as that only gets in our way sooner or later...
>
> Why not simply use that (integration is as hard as linking one JS file
> in all HTML headers)? If somebody wants something more fancy, we can
> still decide about writing that ourselves or use another toolkit (like
> scriptaculous for Drag'n'Drop) on top of prototype. With this approach,
> we'd get just as much magic as we need...

Full ACK.

Additionally I think we're pretty much on the safe side with Prototype,
since a lot of other big project are also using it (Ruby on Rails,
Symfony, Plone and Zoop as well as JavaScript libraries like
scriptaculous, rico or moo.fx), which guarantees continuous and stable
development.

cheers,
Ingmar