Re: Sencha Touch

Hi Nathan,

I fully agree that JSON and ExtJS syntax is messy. The JSON
messy-ness is resolve by having JSON composer/parser on both ends (in
ExtJS and RPG), and the Firebug plugin for Firefox has a nice JSON
renderer that I use for debugging.

The ExtJS syntax I am still working on. I hope to eventually store
the properties of a screen/panel in a DB2 table and have "render kits"
that take the DB2 data and render it to a particular UI framework
(i.e. ExtJS, SenchaTouch, jQTouch, Android, iPad, etc).

In the end though, I would still argue that even with the messy ExtJS
syntax it is much easier/quicker for me to code an application than
CGIDEV2. After awhile you get good at the syntax - it's just
Javascript arrays.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Aaron Bartell
I am also liking how these latest js frameworks are allowing and
focusing on configuring "screens" and all we need to do is show/hide
them and occupy them with information.  Soooo much easier than the
traditional CGIDEV2 I grew up on - at least in my opinion.

Now I'm curious what you like about "configuring screens"?  Looking at an HTML
page source where ExtJS code was for "configuring screens" makes me wonder what
you like about it?  I find that long streams of JSON formating are hard to read
and hard to maintain, particularly with all the delimiters.  One of the guys in
our user's group is learning Valence, and commented that the RPG code is fine,
but the JavaScript is hard.  I assumed he meant that coding in JSON is hard.

-Nathan




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