[FLOW3-general] Rumours of Phoenix dropping ExtJS?

["Christian Müller (Kitsunet)"]

>> To add some more info about why we added Sproutcore and not replaced
>> ExtJS with it.
>
> let us hope that we do no repeat the faults that rails made in tighly
> coupling prototype with their first releases.
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> now they are kind of js framework agnostic.
>

I don't see that danger here. FLOW3 is open to any JS Framework, and for 
Phoenix UI we need to decide an couple to some framework eventually. As 
for the ExtDirect connectors yes we have them but we also have a JSON 
view for general JS connection. I think we would have the worst coupling 
with using ExtJS because then we'd have lots of logic on the client side 
and ExtDirect as connection to the server side so it would be a hell to 
create a different UI. With our current approach everything is much more 
loosely coupled and the UI could be replaced by something else easier. 
As I said we still use ExtDirect but just out of convenience right now. 
I think we will replace that sooner or later.

> still it would be a good idea to give the sencha guys feedback on that.
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> steffen kamper and nils dehl have been speakers at sencha events lately
> and should be able to speak to tommy maintz and james pearce.
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> olivier
>

Give Sencha guys feedback on what? Didn't get it sorry ;)
I haven't been in touch with Steffen since months (seems no one has 
really) and Nils also seemed to be pretty occupied with other stuff than 
phoenix but yes I agree we should give Sencha some feedback about our 
experiences.

Christian