Comments on: Ext 2.0 Final Released

By: riteshkapse

riteshkapse — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:21:44 +0000

I WONDER WHICH ONE IS BETTER EXT OR GWT ?

By: koreanplywood

koreanplywood — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:38:22 +0000

am very, very impressed. It takes a couple of days to get the hang of it, then everything flows like water

By: balupton

balupton — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:29:16 +0000

That is brilliant. I will need to give it a go sometime.

Also +1 for excerpt.

By: mdmadph

mdmadph — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:18:51 +0000

…this is why I keep telling people not to use WordPress for big projects.

Or small projects.

Or anything.

By: david

david — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:03:36 +0000

As a newbie to Ext, I am very, very impressed. It takes a couple of days to get the hang of it, then everything flows like water. It’s been a boon to bring an unruly JS code base under control, with a much more attractive UI/UX to boot! You guys have done an outstanding job.

What I like best is that it fits quite naturally with prototype.js. Just about everything on the old site just works!

Now having said that – we need more tutorials. The first few days getting up to speed are still pretty painful.

By: Andy Kant

Andy Kant — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:55:39 +0000

Congrats to Jack and the Ext team on the new release.

As for the scrolling tabs, I’d agree with naterkane that I’m not a big fan. That said, they are still the best solution for an annoying problem, and Ext’s implementation is a bit smoother than I’ve seen in Firefox or other desktop apps.

By: Jack Slocum

Jack Slocum — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:00:10 +0000

@naterkane
The choice is yours. Ext supports both scrolling tabs (FF2) and shrinking tabs (FF 1.x). Regards.

By: starkraving

starkraving — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:57:33 +0000

Was work ever completed on bringing Ext to Mootools users?

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:19:30 +0000

Has Ext been “Ajaxian’ed?” (“WordPress > Error” and “Unable to select database”)

By: mdmadph

mdmadph — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:41:31 +0000

@naterkane

You know of a better way to display tons of tabs in a limited space without going to multiple rows and destroying a layout? :P

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:49:22 +0000

+1 for the Excerpt and a link to “Read more”.

By: Nicolas BUI

Nicolas BUI — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:03:50 +0000

Ext JS 2.0 is a very good and long waited release as it was for Ext 1.0.
Now, it would be good to have more examples and tutorials (although there are quite good documentation but still missing many important tutorials).

By: naterkane

naterkane — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:13:17 +0000

scrolling tabs is one of the things about the Firefox 2.x UI that was/is a bad idea, so it’s now a “feature” to be able to use Ext to hide content in an additional and non-intuitive way? Ack.

By: JeffHowden

JeffHowden — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:53:18 +0000

@Gilles: I’d say that in some circumstances Ext is certainly useful on normal webpages (whatever normal is anymore) as even the full file with everything in it only weighs in at 135 KB when sent down the wire gzipped. The Ext base adapter is another 13 KB and the CSS for everything a mere 12 KB. Now, in most “normal” webpages you aren’t likely to use but s subset of Ext. So, if you use the “Build your own” functionality, you can build something with only the features you need that’s significantly smaller. Given that, I’d say it’s certainly useful on normal webpages.

By: Olmo Maldonado

Olmo Maldonado — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:59:27 +0000

Any chance of using excerpt from now on? Hard to read the rest of the news if one article takes up all the viewport and then some.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:58:29 +0000

How about the filesize, is EXT even “usefull” on normal webpages, or has EXT moved to a different area (e.g. mainly backend)?

By: threepointone

threepointone — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:53:36 +0000

That’s just hot. Been using Ext since forever, and Ext 2.0 is just hot hot hot. Yay for Jack!