There are still probs with the drag and drop :(

If you drag a box to another’s and the headers/title bars perfectly match, they’re not going to switch.

And maybe increase the tolerance a little before switching boxes (you can drag one like barely 10 px into another, and they will switch).

For the arrow, I meant the one that looks like this upside down: ^ :)

As for the themes, I meant perhaps (consider this for your next, eye-candy release :) ) use one constant theme so that all your widgets look like they belong to the same package. Of course, you can have more than one theme, but in this case allow the user to select, and stick with one by default. (pretty much like Ext does) That would really help for users to take your site more seriously.

GL with the project :)

The toolkit itself looks like a nice product. If I was developing in ASP.NET, I would seriously consider using it.

Even if I had started on the “comparison”, I’m just someone who posts his opinion, and you’re the one who’s trying to sell a product shall I remind you.

Aside from that, you know you’re not going to attract customers by saying “Soon a top 5 largest site from Norway is going to be using Gaia”. What we want to see is stuff that appeals to our eye, and stuff that works good.

My criticism mightn’t have been of much help until now, but I have a few suggestions:

- The fisheye widget on your screenshots page, maybe you could improve it so that elements can grow from a center point, rather than staying fixed in the top-left corner and growing from there

- The “Ajax Window Pageflakes” drag and drop behavior should definately be changed imho. The delay is annoying, and it just behaves stupid. Try this: Select a box, move it around just a little, then drag it back to like 10 pixels up its original location, then release your mouse. Instead of not moving (like it should because it is closest to its original location than to another element), it’s going to switch with another element.

- You seriously, really need a constant theme. You can have multiple themes if you want, but allow users to choose their theme or something, but by default please leave a constant theme. Just look at your WYSIWYG editor or the “trigger happy” popup that appears when you view the Pageflakes page.

And please change that ugly arrow in your date selection widget :)

@Everyone: Please settle down guys.

@Thomas: Please refrain from personal attacks.

Lol, stop it with “personal attacks”, and no I’m not a 12 years old kid with a keyboard. If I posted my website, you would compare it then what? This is an ajaxian post about your widgets and all you are argueing about is comparing websites. Who cares if X’s is better than Y’s? Will that give people a good reason to purchase your widgets?

The point is, the average user does not care about how well your javascript is coded. All he wants is the thing to work. And what we see in Gaia widgets, is a bunch of ugly, non-constant themed widgets and they don’t look nor work good (I’m talking about the user’s interaction with the widgets, not the javascript; i.e.: Fisheye widget).

Also, in your testimonials, how about you post the pages where your widgets are actually used?

Because right now I’m sorry, but I’d save more money and be way more confident in hiring a mexican freelancer to make Ext work on my site (assuming I don’t know Javascript and don’t care about learning it) rather than purchasing Gaia widgets.

I didn’t wright the code you are looking at, that is the homepage of the company I work for. BELIEVE me I have been trying for the past year and a half to rewrite that piece of crap of a page. But the company wont let me, that has become a political issue and taboo to talk about. (It’s interdepartmental) Sadly all the pages I have written are on intranets and are not viewable on the Internet.

@Rey Bango

go to this link http://extjs.com/store and view the paragraph titled “License Options”, that is where I lifted the quote. But if you need more you could also go to http://extjs.com/license and look at the paragraph titled “Commercial License”. You see most people want to be paid for there work… Some of you think just because you can get it for free means you shouldn’t pay. These libraries you so love are made by real people that have bills just like you and me. They spend time on maintaining these “I don’t have to pay a cent libraries” you love so much. If you create a page and you are making money from there work, then I feel they need to be compensated. I just think we should be supporting them and not taking advantage of them. I know that this can be such a strange concept for some.

@Brian

Sorry about personal attack… I get a little punchy sometimes.. But I feel that the Gaia Widgets although not as mature as some libraries deserves the right to exist and does serve a need, that is why I am here to defend it.

The thing I don’t think most understand about the Gaia Widgets is how tightly bound they are to the .NET server side. For some this is a bad thing, If you use something other than Visual Studio to write your pages then Gaia probably isn’t for you. But if someone is using Visual Studio, noob to Ajax, don’t know alot about Javascript then Gaia is for you. Dojo and ExtJS are fantastic libraries but extra steps need to be taken to interact with the server side like a wrapper of some sort. Gaia has implemented a framework that does this so well that it is transparent.. But the client code is dynamic enough that is is extensible. Complete noobs can write an AJAX page without knowing a scrap of Javascript, this is threatening to some.

Ah, I had only seen the 30 day trial, not the free GPL version. Forget what I said above, you guys are doing well. It’d give you guys some good mojo if the GPL version was more advertised on the front page. I think it would build a lot more interest.