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Beautiful Web UI libraries

35 points by nreece 18y ago

eli_s 18y ago
It really bugs me that extjs is never on these types of lists. It blows the competition out of the water!
- cstejerean 18y ago
  ExtJS is pretty good, but it's not as awesome as it might appear at first. As soon as you try to step outside the its features you're in for some adventures. For example IIRC there is no way to reorder tabs.
- chime 18y ago
  You're absolutely right! I was looking for an editable grid in all of these kits and the best one was in extjs: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grid/edit-grid.html http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grid/edit-grid.html The only other decent grid editor I know is: http://trirand.com/jqgrid/jqgrid.html http://trirand.com/jqgrid/jqgrid.html Also missing from this list is the http://ui.jquery.com/ http://ui.jquery.com/
waratuman 18y ago
I really don't like the idea of running java in the browser like IT Toolkit does.
- teej 18y ago
  I feel like many of the uses of "RIA" technologies (Java, Flex/Flash, Silverlight) are superfluous bling. Hell, a Flex app is all ActionScript anyway, why bother moving from one ECMAscript implementation to another when the one works fine natively in the browser, and the other requires a client download?
code_devil 18y ago
Has anyone used these Web UI Frameworks on top of the Web Dev frameworks like Ruby/Rails or Django etc ? How ? Links ? Thanks.
- teej 18y ago
  I've used YUI (just the Rich Text Editor) with Rails. There's nothing to it but a javascript includes and a quick function call. Customization requires some tricky config - something I didn't find straightforward or easy - but in the end it served my need and did the job.
huhtenberg 18y ago
Does anyone use MochaUI in production ? It looks very interesting.
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rando 18y ago
They need to take the worthless "Write a java app, we'll output in ajax for you!" ones of the list. They're the wrong way to solve the problem. The web isn't a desktop app, you'll never get anywhere trying to treat it like one.

35 points by nreece 18y ago

eli_s 18y ago

It really bugs me that extjs is never on these types of lists. It blows the competition out of the water!

cstejerean 18y ago
ExtJS is pretty good, but it's not as awesome as it might appear at first. As soon as you try to step outside the its features you're in for some adventures. For example IIRC there is no way to reorder tabs.
chime 18y ago
You're absolutely right! I was looking for an editable grid in all of these kits and the best one was in extjs: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grid/edit-grid.html http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grid/edit-grid.html The only other decent grid editor I know is: http://trirand.com/jqgrid/jqgrid.html http://trirand.com/jqgrid/jqgrid.html Also missing from this list is the http://ui.jquery.com/ http://ui.jquery.com/

waratuman 18y ago

I really don't like the idea of running java in the browser like IT Toolkit does.

teej 18y ago
I feel like many of the uses of "RIA" technologies (Java, Flex/Flash, Silverlight) are superfluous bling. Hell, a Flex app is all ActionScript anyway, why bother moving from one ECMAscript implementation to another when the one works fine natively in the browser, and the other requires a client download?

code_devil 18y ago

Has anyone used these Web UI Frameworks on top of the Web Dev frameworks like Ruby/Rails or Django etc ? How ? Links ? Thanks.

teej 18y ago
I've used YUI (just the Rich Text Editor) with Rails. There's nothing to it but a javascript includes and a quick function call. Customization requires some tricky config - something I didn't find straightforward or easy - but in the end it served my need and did the job.

huhtenberg 18y ago

Does anyone use MochaUI in production ? It looks very interesting.

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rando 18y ago

They need to take the worthless "Write a java app, we'll output in ajax for you!" ones of the list. They're the wrong way to solve the problem. The web isn't a desktop app, you'll never get anywhere trying to treat it like one.