[Sugar-devel] HTML activities

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/1/30 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday, 30 January 2013, Manuel Quiñones wrote:
>>
>> 2013/1/29 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
>> > On 28 January 2013 18:47,  <lionel at olpc-france.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> * Should we be using existing js frameworks like jquery in the toolkit
>> >>> ot
>> >> limit ourselves to plain javascript.
>> >>
>> >> There is plenty of JavaScript frameworks. We should allow to use any
>> >> framework to avoid losing a part of the JavaScript community.
>> >> My current work is based on the Enyo framework but could be adapted
>> >> easily
>> >> to jQuery or to pure JavaScript.
>>
>> I hope I don't start a frameworks war..
>>
>> Being accustomed to Python, I really like CoffeScript.  And is not
>> just syntactic sugar, go have a look at Classes and inheritance:
>>
>> http://coffeescript.org/#classes
>>
>> I think for JS Sugar and Toolkit would be nice to investigate.  As the
>> website states, they try to expose the goodness of JS in a simple way.
>
>
> Heh, I'm so tempted now... I was noticing yesterday how painful it is to
> write JS code when you are used to python. Most essential coffee feature is
> the lack of semicolon :) But seriously it could make our life easier and
> ease the transition from python activities to HTML.

:)

And if you like literate programming, docco is amazing for documentation:

http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/

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