Ext Standalone
Category javascript
On Wednesday, Ext 1.1 was released. Of the various improvements included in this release, my personal favorite is that Ext can now function as a standalone framework; although it can still serve as an extension to YUI, jQuery, or "Protaculous" (Prototype + script.aculo.us), it now "ships" with its own base file in case you want the bells and whistles that Ext offers but don't need any functionality specific to any of the other frameworks. Since the #1 item on Yahoo's list of ways to enhance web page performance is to make fewer HTTP requests, I've combined the new ext-base.js and updated ext-all.js into a single ext.js. You can download it here. The ZIP file also includes a pre-gzipped copy of the file (ext.js.gz), which is a mere 140 KB and can be used in Domino applications if you've configured your server to send the appropriate header information.
This should further lower the total page-weight of XIDED, because at present it's only using YUI for Ajax calls that can now be refactored to use the new Ext.Ajax object, allowing the standalone version of Ext to suffice. For those of you wondering whatever happened to the plan to release XIDED back in May, I can tell you that "she is not dead, she is only sleeping" (with apologies to Luke). Following discussion with various folks and much thought about the project's direction, I've decided to take a different route. Certain portions of what it can already do will be reincorporated into something else entirely, which I'm tentatively calling "peractio tactum"... can't say much more than that at the moment, but trust me: it's gonna be wicked cool when it's done.
On Wednesday, Ext 1.1 was released. Of the various improvements included in this release, my personal favorite is that Ext can now function as a standalone framework; although it can still serve as an extension to YUI, jQuery, or "Protaculous" (Prototype + script.aculo.us), it now "ships" with its own base file in case you want the bells and whistles that Ext offers but don't need any functionality specific to any of the other frameworks. Since the #1 item on Yahoo's list of ways to enhance web page performance is to make fewer HTTP requests, I've combined the new ext-base.js and updated ext-all.js into a single ext.js. You can download it here. The ZIP file also includes a pre-gzipped copy of the file (ext.js.gz), which is a mere 140 KB and can be used in Domino applications if you've configured your server to send the appropriate header information.
This should further lower the total page-weight of XIDED, because at present it's only using YUI for Ajax calls that can now be refactored to use the new Ext.Ajax object, allowing the standalone version of Ext to suffice. For those of you wondering whatever happened to the plan to release XIDED back in May, I can tell you that "she is not dead, she is only sleeping" (with apologies to Luke). Following discussion with various folks and much thought about the project's direction, I've decided to take a different route. Certain portions of what it can already do will be reincorporated into something else entirely, which I'm tentatively calling "peractio tactum"... can't say much more than that at the moment, but trust me: it's gonna be wicked cool when it's done.
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