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- MeneerR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Best dhtml "fat" thin-client available. And uses one of the most 'open' liscenses available. A little steep learner curve, because the documentation is falling behind a bit, but a very fast and intelligent setup. Its the opensource Bindows (tm) killer.
For those unaware of these types of frameworks. The idea is that you never ever write a HTML document again. You built every little detail of your page in javascript. Even the most trivial things in HTML are widgets, such as links and images, as well as the very complicated stuff (like sortable tables, dropdown-menu's, tab-pages). You never ever touch the DOM or any browser-specific stuff yourself. Rather you built new widgets by subclassing or combining the core (browser-indepentent) widgets.
It is by far the fastest dhtml renderer out there. (much faster than Bindows in some cases). But they give up a little speed by with their built-in type-constraints. You can add properties that have their values checked at assignments, and dispatch events when their value changes. This is a very small performance price to pay: since without any checking debugging javascript is nightmare, and makes it less suited for large-scale programs. They've overcome that. And I think it is _this_ that gives them the real edge: They've gone out of their way to make life easier for those who prefer to built clean MVC style interface logic.
The only downfall currently is the lack of good introductory documentation. But since its' a community effort you can expect this to sort itself out...
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