Comments on: Ext JS 3.0 Roadmap and Developer Tool

By: PieturP

PieturP — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:59:00 +0000

Verry Verry Nice! Can’t wait for early 2009 ;-)

NB: RichW: Can you post a screenshot or demo of your app, sounds interesting that it doesn’t look to much ‘Ext’

By: DataPlumber

DataPlumber — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:26:16 +0000

I don’t understand this thing about “ooh it doesn’t look like a web app”. Erm… it IS a web app. When all’s said and done, it’s HTML styled by CSS. You can make it look how you want. HOw can it be anything other than a webpage built with DIVs, ULs etc? There’s no “difference”.

By: RichW

RichW — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:28:34 +0000

Very nice stuff Jack and Co. We use Ext in one of our projects and it’s great stuff. BTW, the appearance is completely customizable through CSS. I’d say most people wouldn’t recognize that we use ext at all. Don’t like the desktop appearance, poke around the CSS and you’ll find it’s quite easy to change.

Can’t wait for the designer.

By: emailandthings

emailandthings — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:25:39 +0000

forgot to mention, this is MIT library… one can wonder..
http://mochaui.com/demo/demo-virtual-desktop.html

By: emailandthings

emailandthings — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:20:58 +0000

@whoisyeco

ExtJs is a framework indeed, but you are right. It looks very windowish, almost like a “SharePoint” (PUKE!!) with the exception that you dont get all those horrible postbacks.

I am interested to see where this other framework will end up though
http://mochaui.com/demo/

By: Zyclops

Zyclops — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:40:38 +0000

I can’t wait for ExtJS 3.0 alpha to be out. I think i’ll be definitely having a play.

By: KKFC

KKFC — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:02:55 +0000

Awesome~ Ajax IDE comes true.

By: mdmadph

mdmadph — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:12:48 +0000

Good use of AIR (thanks for picking something cross-OS compatible). That’s amazing work.

By: kevinle

kevinle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:19:02 +0000

Ext is great, and the fact there are additional themes to the blue theme is a bonus. But web applications built with Ext, no matter what theme, still resemble the desktop counterparts. I find it ironic that this is heading in the opposite direction of desktop application trend nowadays. What I mean is people are trying to build to build desktop applications that resemble more and more like web applications. Off the top my head is the Symantec Protection EndPoint program(or something like that, I don’t remember the name) and I am sure there are many more. I am not concluding which is better, but in my opinion as a user, I find it more interesting to using desktop apps that look and smell more like web apps. But at the end of the day, it all boils down to what is it that one is trying to build.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:02:30 +0000

There’s several themes that aren’t blue:
http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15504
http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15505
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The point of Ext is in fact that it’s very much suited to desktop app designs, because for business programming that often is the design you gravitate towards. And honestly, Ext is quite easy to develop for.
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That GUI designer looks pretty sweet. I’m really looking forwards to Ext3.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:43:17 +0000

Yeah…I think it does remind people of Windows…but I think that might be part of the idea. Ext JS is familiar…which is one of the reasons why it’s so great. There are other themes, I believe even an Apple one, but yeah, you will have to dig for them.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:15:57 +0000

I don’t think I was complaining. I’m interested in Ext and am trying to figure out where it fits in our toolbox.
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“There are many themes available. Check the Ext forums.”
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I keep seeing the blue theme. When I think of Ext, I think of that blue theme. I’m assuming people like it (reminds them of windows?).

By: ajaxery

ajaxery — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:12:53 +0000

@Nosredna: I think you’re missing the point of Ext. It’s a web application framework.
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There are many themes available. Check the Ext forums.

By: ajaxianreader123

ajaxianreader123 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:55:19 +0000

BTW, the tool looks amazing! It will definitely simplify the ExtJS learning curve when we can whittle something together using a GUI and then learn from the code it generates.

By: ajaxianreader123

ajaxianreader123 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:53:07 +0000

Does Nosredna do anything but complain?

By: starkraving

starkraving — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:09:34 +0000

Is there going to be an in-house derivative for MooTools this time around? The 3rd-party attempt for v2 never got finished, and I don’t think it’s considered “official” either.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:26:39 +0000

I’ve always seen Ext as a tool to make things that look like Windows apps, not something with a lively web-like interface. Is there a reason all the Ext apps look so . . . serious?

Are there theme’s other than “bluish?”

Are there Ext apps that have the Web 2.0 cliches like starbursts, rounded corners, drop-shadows, candy buttons?

Anyone using Ext along with something like jQuery or Dojo to liven things up a bit?

By: whoisyeco

whoisyeco — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:42:24 +0000

I’ll be waiting this cool release. Also the tool looks pretty useful.

By: ajaxery

ajaxery — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:23:40 +0000

been waiting for a tool like that.

By: V1

V1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:19:48 +0000

the tool looks neat :)