We're rebuilding some pieces of our editor in Poll Everywhere and to date, its the most sensible approach to JS MVC that we've seen. Frameworks like Cappuccino and SproutCore make it really hard to control the look and feel if your application and take an "all or nothing" approach whereas Backbone.js goes with the "grain" of the web letting you mix-and-match whatever JS libs you want to use for your project.
There is a lot to digest in that article. My gut tells me to stick with jQuery plug-ins for consistency, but he seems to lean to the mix and match side of things. Any opinions on that from the folks here?
Depends on how well things play with jQuery. The projects that do well with jQuery tends to advertise it as one of their big features. You can feel free to choose from only those, I feel.
Oh the irony of a "user interface ninja" who puts all the actual content below the fold. (My laptop res is 1366x768 which I believe is fairly typical for Lenovo branded thinkpads)
Maybe this guy is a Javascript Ninja but he doesn't know the first thing about colors.
Terrible readability, just horrid.
Edit: This sounds really mean. I usually don't criticize the design of stuff posted on HN but on the top of the page he claims to be a 'web interface ninja'. That's really pompous. But he designs this?
We're rebuilding some pieces of our editor in Poll Everywhere and to date, its the most sensible approach to JS MVC that we've seen. Frameworks like Cappuccino and SproutCore make it really hard to control the look and feel if your application and take an "all or nothing" approach whereas Backbone.js goes with the "grain" of the web letting you mix-and-match whatever JS libs you want to use for your project.