[FLOW3-general] Rumours of Phoenix dropping ExtJS?

["Christian Müller (Kitsunet)"]

On 08/10/11 15:55, Robert Lemke wrote:
> Hi Jigal,
>
> On 10/08/11, at 11:46:10 Schuler, Stephan wrote:
>
>> You could have a look at the keynote of t3con11 from yesterday. At
>> ~0:26, Robert talks about switching from ExtJS.
>> http://t3con11.chaoscdn.de/
>
>
> The best is if you watch the presentation of Sebastian and Christian (same link above) about the current state of Phoenix. That should answer most questions.
>

Yes that would be a good idea to see the presentation so you get a rough 
idea what we have and why we have decided to do so.

To add some more info about why we added Sproutcore and not replaced 
ExtJS with it. Sproutcore 2 is built on jQuery as Aloha is too so we 
have jQuery in anyway. Sproutcore just adds MVC components, no UI 
components. We are not really happy with the ExtJS (still v3) tree but 
we have some experience with it and so just reused a bit of what we have 
already. That is why we still load ExtJS in the current backend (and 
because ExtDirect is just convenient as we have created all the 
connections to the serverside alreay). Maybe at some point if we have a 
replacement for the tree we could eventually drop ExtJS, but I guess we 
will keep it. Having to load 200KB more isn't a big problem. It is 
backend only and will be cached by the browser, so it doesn't really 
matter. For Mobile use we probably need a different backend anyway and 
that would be the only use case I can see where some kB of javascript 
could matter.

Christian