DMZ 1.7.1 (DataMapper OverZealous Edition)

[eluser]OverZealous[/eluser]
[quote author="PoetaWD" date="1268715281"]
I was really waiting for this one to come out !!!!!
[/quote]
So was I! :lol:
Amazingly, I already have another new feature written (see the 1.6.2 thread). :-P

Btw, I was trying your program zestyjobs.com ! It is pretty awesome ! I loved what you did with dojo to make that amazing UI !

Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback. I'm sitting on an important performance update to ZJ (not just DMZ, but also major updates to the JS libraries) that will make it even better.

It have given me some inspiration to change a lot in the UI I am developing for my programs! I am using jQuery... I think that jQuery is easier and I can achieve the results I want with it.

I did a lot of research before choosing Dojo. I had several specific requirements:
1) I really wanted an "infinite" scrolling, sortable list. Dojo was one of the few frameworks that had one at all, and the Dojo DataGrid is quite advanced.
2) I wanted a rich collection of already-built widgets, and, boy does Dojo have that!
3) It also needed to provide a foundation for advanced AJAX interaction. Dojo not only handles XHR wrapping, but it provides automatic form submission via AJAX, and a slick system for querying data from the server in a consistent manner.

Dojo's huge widget library is a great foundation, but it can be quite hefty. Of course, ZestyJobs has dynamic trees, tables, modal dialogs, complex forms including suggestion boxes, sliders, and self-validating fields all loaded right away. It adds up pretty quick.

My current dev version has this awesome feature that uses localStorage to cache all of the JS code - even if the browser's cache is cleared. With that, the second time you load the page takes ~1s, and only has to download ~40Kb. It's pretty cool. (It even intelligently handles software upgrades, replacing just the files necessary.)

I like both jQuery and Prototype. I've used both in the past. I've even played with mootools. When I started ZestyJobs (it's been about 18 months now), the JS framework environment was really different. Even now, I don't think any JS framework has the diversity of Dojo's.

Sadly, they actually had better documentation in the past, but they've been restructuring lately, and they current API docs and manual is lacking. I think it would be very difficult to start using Dojo at this moment in time.

Btw, if you want help translating Zesty Jobs to portuguese you can count with me!

Thanks. If I decide to support multiple languages, I'll keep that in mind. Currently, the UI is poorly broken up between the JS and the server-side PHP, so handling translations would be very difficult. It's on my list, but currently a low priority.


OK, enough talking about my own projects... :-)