[cgiapp] Unobtrusive Javascript form validation

[P Kishor]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Nicholas Bamber <nicholas at periapt.co.uk> wrote:
>> The company I work for has also been moving to JQuery, so I won't be
>> surprised if Data.FormValidator gets updated at some point to>
>> integrate better with JQuery, possibly on a fork.
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> This is a frustrating thing about javascript. I use YUI. I have very poor experience from trying to mix frameworks. I think this must be a common experience and it must be difficult to share resources across frameworks.
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I am sure it must be frustrating, but the following --

One, it should not be a problem mixing frameworks as long as one
framework does a specific task and the other a different task. Well
designed frameworks will protect their namespaces, and not tread on
each other's feet.

Two, there really should not be any need to mix frameworks. Js
frameworks are all pretty rich. jQuery, for example, seems to have a
plugin/method for just about everything. I use jQuery, and have never
(except in one, fairly well-behaved instance) needed nor felt the need
to use another framework. I am assuming the same should be true of
other well-developed frameworks.

Three, that is why I don't mix languages. Personally, I believe that
HTML should be written in HTML, and not by a Perl module that
implements its own methods of creating HTML. Similarly, JavaScript
should be written in JavaScript, and not by Perl modules that generate
the JavaScript. Templating helps a lot with that. That way, the
backend code is in Perl, and the front-end code is in pure HTML, CSS,
and Js (with the use of HTML::Template, in my case).



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Puneet Kishor