[TYPO3-v4] The future of ExtJS 4 in TYPO3 4.7

[Kay Strobach]

Am 12.01.2012 18:43, schrieb Jigal van Hemert:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11-1-2012 16:47, Oliver Hader wrote:
> 
> It's very sad to say, but the current state of the core 4.7-dev with
> regard to the use of ExtJS is simply not at a level where we can expect
> that it will be good enough for a beta in a few weeks. This is probably
> mainly due to the lack of ExtJS experts.
> 
> The choices you proposed (which are completely logical!) are like
> choosing between two evils: either losing functionality all over the
> place or losing new developments.
> 
> In this light the suggestion of Olivier seems like a good third option
> to investigate. If Sencha is willing to provide help with migrating the
> "rest" of the core to ExtJS4 this would mean that we can easily keep the
> new developments. The enthusiasm of the ExtJS guys a few T3CONs ago
> almost suggested that they liked it very much that TYPO3 used their JS
> framework.
> 
> While it is understandable that it must not be nice for the developers
> of the new components to learn that they will not be included in this
> form in this release, it's also understandable that we can't release a
> new version where a lot of existing features don't function any more.
> 
> One more that worries me about ExtJS4 is this quote from [1]:
> "While 4.1 is clearly a big improvement over 4.0, it is not yet as fast
> across the board as 3.4"
> We've been trying hard to improve the speed of the TYPO3 backend because
> it feels slow to people. Using ExtJS4 will not improve the (perceived)
> speed, I'm afraid.
> 
> For the future of JS in the TYPO3 core it seems that we need some hybrid
> solution.
> AFAIK ExtJS can run on top of for example jQuery. This would only safe
> loading Ext.base, but it would also mean that jQuery is available by
> default (as desired by many I guess). To keep the BE a bit "light" on
> loading JS frameworks we should definitely get rid of the last bits of
> prototype / scriptaculous / mootools / YUI / etc.
> 
> From posts by Olly I conclude that only "vidi" depends on ExtJS4. If the
> release managers team after thoroughly testing think it's ready to go in
> the core, except for the modifications to run with ExtJS3 we could give
> it until beta2 to see if it can be shipped with 4.7.
> I don't like exceptions for the feature freeze, but in the light of this
> change back to ExtJS3 it seems reasonable.
> 
> [1] http://www.sencha.com/blog/whats-new-in-ext-js-4-1/
> 


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