On Wednesday, 30 January 2013, Manuel Quiñones wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2013/1/29 Daniel Narvaez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com')">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>>: > On 28 January 2013 18:47, <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'lionel@olpc-france.org')">lionel@olpc-france.org</a>> 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: <a href="http://coffeescript.org/#classes" target="_blank">http://coffeescript.org/#classes</a> 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. </blockquote><div> </div><div>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.</div> -- Daniel Narvaez