Comments on: Foo: A Prototype based RIA framework

By: Adeel Malik

Adeel Malik — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:48:54 +0000

Good work Rizqi bruv. I’m also interested in trying out your framework in my apps. For a first release its is indeed is a great effort.
Guys if you see other frameworks like prototype or scriptaculous they lack a lot of functionality or having a lot of bugs in their first launch which were fixed in later versions, and I think Rizqi have done a great work and indeed he deserves alot of admiration.

By: newton ramos garcia

newton ramos garcia — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:54:24 +0000

@Rizqi Ahmad
It is a very interesting work … I ‘ll read more about it and try it out in my own applications.

By: Andriy Mykhaylyuk

Andriy Mykhaylyuk — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:51:17 +0000

@Rizqi
Realy good work, how about adding some default key bindings to the framework?
User can just press up and down keys to move via list of data for example .

By: Adnan Siddiqi

Adnan Siddiqi — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:17:39 +0000

Good work Rizqi!

By: Rizqi Ahmad

Rizqi Ahmad — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:01:20 +0000

@Greg
As you may notice, it is more responsive than spry (you will notice in sorting demo). You can also insert javascript snippets inside your sections (Region in spry). You can create a complex section bindings. The custom attributes is extensible. The included extension can do drag and drop by just placing a “drag” attribute to your node. etc…

for more information please read the learn section.

By: Greg Fuller

Greg Fuller — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:12:28 +0000

Just curious, does Foo have any advantages over Spry ?

By: Rizqi Ahmad

Rizqi Ahmad — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:45:58 +0000

@Andriy
OK, IE7 Bug fixed.

about delete. I only wanted to show the drag zone feature (Items in catalog cannot be dragged to delete).

@Emil – What should I instead show you in the demo? I will try to create another application to convince you ;)

The main feature of this framework is its binding capability. It lets you define a relation between two or more sections to make them automaticly synchronize themself to current state. So you don’t need to manually code them and it results in less javascript code (please see the source of each demo…)

By: Rizqi Ahmad

Rizqi Ahmad — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:42:04 +0000

@Andriy
Sorry, I tested it in Safari 2.0+3.0, Firefox2.0, IE6 and Opera. I will definitely fix it!

By: Andriy Mykhaylyuk

Andriy Mykhaylyuk — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:26:17 +0000

Emil, I completely agree with you. But it’s very popular to have delete via drg’n'drop in a demos, it’s strange to me :)

By: emil

emil — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:49:00 +0000

Isn’t the demo supposed to be a demo? It only shows you all functionality of the framework. I don’t think anyone should use a drag-n-drop delete thingy in a real world application.

By: Andriy Mykhaylyuk

Andriy Mykhaylyuk — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:38:31 +0000

Hey,
Rizqi, have you tested it in IE7 ? Selection is not working there :(
And one more suggestion :
I don’t know why do you guys love to add features like removing items from cart by dragging anywhere (Delete item in the current demo). Isn’t it easier to show that it can be deleted by clicking on some button placed on item ?
But anyway it’s good work ;)