Comments on: YUI After the Dojo Snail

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:21:49 +0000

this sounds fantastic, any of you guys feel like sharing your templates or a simple example; since i’m new to ajax it’s a bit confusing to put the pieces together; the basic idea of
“Select id,name,address from FriendList” or whatever with CRUD should be like one line of code. (without installing ruby, just some php libraries/templates) grin

By: 7twenty

7twenty — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:32:03 +0000

I ran into the same issue with Dojo. It is just too slow. I wasn’t so concerned with the load time as our app is a single page app. However, rendering times are horrible. We also had many issues with Dojo memory leaks.

We use Ext JS for another app. It is amazing. We use it via a GPL license, but the commercial license is worth 10x what they charge.

By: CDN

CDN — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:33:16 +0000

I had a very similar experience w/Dojo and YUI, and am in the process of doing a side-by-side comparison of YUI DataTable vs Dojo DataGrid. Just wondering … what do you use for your backend (rails, etc.)? And, are you using JSON?

I’m using the YUI grid with a JSON DataSource and have found that rails returns an array whereas the YUI datasource apparently expects a JSON response object (with a property containing the results collection). Have you experienced the same thing? If so, any words of advice?

By: anjan

anjan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:53:23 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one obsessed with dhtml Data Tables.

I got blown away by ExtJs grids initially a while back, they were truely wicked, until its license turned me off and make me ditch a month’s effort to learn it.
And then I found YUI datagrid, and I looked no more.
My whole reason for getting hooked to YUI data table was its wicked inline cell editing.
Then I came to discover all its goodies, paging, custom formatting, sorting, replicating desktop effects like row clicking etc…
With the help of YUI data grid I managed to abstract out a library that takes in data and metadata from the server via ajax and created a crud application centered around the data table, with absolutely no extra-coding other than creating an instance of data table.

And I can drop that library in any project and it’ll give me a CRUD application instantly ( of course u have to write your code on the server to service the ajax calls for data and metadata, and which is quite easy to abstract out ).
It handles adding/editing/deleting/searching records from one single page. I use YUI’s excellent panel widget to automatically generate forms for editing records for the CRUD app.

And I wouldn’t trade that for anything

Dojo certainly has a good community following and industry backings, especially from the Java end of town, but it lacks the appeals of YUI. With YUI I don’t have to add non-standard stuffs in my markup to make it work and YUI is damn fast too.

And YUI 3.0 is looking really really mean