[Zope3-dev] Re: Ajax in Zope 3

Martijn Faassen faassen at infrae.com
Thu Dec 8 11:11:57 EST 2005


Benji York wrote:
> Florent Guillaume wrote:
> 
>> Myself I absolutely love the approach taken by CrackAjax
>> (http://www.aminus.org/blogs/index.php/phunt/2005/10/06/subway_s_new_ajax_framework) 
> 
> 
> 
> It's funny you mention that.  I was intrigued by that too, but I can 
> only characterize his implementation as a toy. :(
> 
> I've been working on something similar but have tried to be a bit more 
> "professional" about it (unit tests, trying to be a good designer, 
> etc.).

[snip]

> I consider this a mad scientist experiment, so I don't expect it to be 
> officially included anywhere or even get any work from me once the 
> novelty wears off.  You are warned; I don't want angry villagers with 
> pitchforks and torches coming to my castle. :)

Another attempt to do something like this is the RPython->Javascript 
translator part of the PyPy project. RPython is the subset of Python 
that PyPy is developed in, and there's work on a translator being done 
by Eric van Riet Paap.

The strength of the PyPy approach would be the strong foundation PyPy 
brings concerning language implementation and testing of such. The 
weakness, at least currently, I believe, is that it doesn't have a story 
yet for how to interface with the client-side APIs such as DOM. 
Definitely one to watch too.

Regards,

Martijn


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