[Grok-dev] Re: AJAX example for Uli using Mochikit and
HTML-injection
Sebastian Ware
sebastian at urbantalk.se
Mon May 28 16:24:15 EDT 2007
KSS sounds good, but when I looked at it I was worried that it would
add overall complexity by being a bit of a black box. In that respect
I would vote for choosing a very simple solution for the management
interface, even if KSS might be the way to go from there when
everything has matured.
I would also worry about performance.
Regards Sebastian
28 maj 2007 kl. 19.19 skrev Martin Aspeli:
> Hi Martijn
>
>>> - KSS (http://kssproject.org), which is what powers AJAX in
>>> Plone 3. This is designed so that it works in "pure Zope 3". This
>>> is a bit "different" in that you generally don't write Java
>>> Script at all. Take a look at the demos on that website to see
>>> what I mean. I know Philipp did some work with KSS in Grok a
>>> while ago.
>> We should definitely see whether we can use KSS with Grok.
>
> I'm pretty sure you can. kss.core should work in plain zope 3 as
> far as I know.
>
>> It's definitely attractive because it seems quite declarative.
>
> It is.
>
>> This needs more examination.
>
> I'm using KSS right now in a separate project, and I'm quite
> enjoying it. It fits my brain. It may not fit everyone's brains, of
> course.
>
> To me, the advantage (which may be a disadvantage to others) of KSS
> is that it imposes some common structure. You write a CSS-like file
> which says *what* is being acted upon and which event (click,
> change, load...) is being trapped. Then you configure one or more
> server-side or client-side actions which react to that event. On
> the server-side, you construct a response (via a simple API) which
> says which commands the client should undertake, e.g. "add this CSS
> class to this node" or "delete all nodes that have this class".
>
> Then, there are higher level constructs, e.g. to refresh a viewlet/
> content provider. This is quite pluggable, so that in Plone we have
> standard commands for e.g. refreshing a portlet or issuing a
> standard status message. This is attractive because the developer
> only uses the higher level API and we can centralise and
> standardise these primitives.
>
> OTOH, I don't think I'd use KSS if I wanted a JS-only application
> (KSS is great if you want to make sure you don't implicitly rely on
> JS, i.e. you have safe fallbacks) like Flickr or something like
> that. You *could*, definitely, but KSS is very much about isolating
> you from writing JS, not giving you more JS to play with.
>
> My experience, anyway. :)
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Acquisition is a jealous mistress
>
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