Re: Rialto Browser UI framework

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been using jqGrid which leverages jQuery and it has been pretty 
productive, especially the inline editing which makes the grid work like 
Excel (good for those finance types at School Districts who seem to 
*love* Excel).

Pete


Nathan Andelin wrote:
> >From just a cursory look, I'm fairly impressed with it.  The JavaScript library appears to be a bit smaller than ExtJS, and required less time to download.  My favorite widget is their splitters - they are intuitive, attractive, and perform much better than others that I've seen.  And after having written my own, I appreciate the excellent job they did.
>
> I also like the methods exposed in the Grid objects for adding, replacing, and removing rows - individually.  Or loading the entire Grid from JSON formatted arrays.  I prefer that over "binding" a Grid to a "data source" object.
>
> Nathan.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat, January 23, 2010 5:12:42 AM
> Subject: [WEB400] Rialto Browser UI framework
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for alternatives to ExtJS, because of the licensing
> complications, and have found Rialto:
> http://rialto.improve-technologies.com/wiki/
>
> Rialto is released under the Apache license:
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
>
> It has an approach similar to ExtJS in that you configure ui widgets and add
> them to a form or grid or etc.
>
> One issue I see is that it isn't as popular as I'd hoped (see the support
> link and look at the amount of emails on the Yahoo forum)
>
> Thoughts?
> Aaron Bartell
>