Re: Application letter

On Do shanbe, Farvardin 01, 1390 04:14:04 am Lukas wrote:
> Hi
> 
> About JS plasmoids.
> Plasma would probably need to be capable with one of main JS frameworks,
> like jQuery. The problems with different browser vendors (damn you IE) made
> JS devs very defendant on JS frameworks, and I wont be surprised, if
> majority wouldn't know majority of standard JS API, since using frameworks
> is almost a must, and helper methods saves lots of developing time, even if
> it costs some performance.

Hi Lukas.
There are basically two ways of creating a js plasmoid:

1) Wrapping a web page in the plasmoid. This means you can use webkit to show 
a webpage in the plasmoid. This means almost no kde intergrationg in it.

This way is not prefered by plasma people as it cannot give a true kde 
experience to the user. However, since you're showing a webpage, you can use 
jQuery or any other js library you want inside the page.


2) Using Plasma's javascript api (+qml). This way you can create truly 
functional and intergrated plasmoids, just like the c++ ones.

However, you can do nothing using jQuery in this way, because as you probably 
know jQuery is a library around DOM and other browser-specific stuff.

What i want to conclude is that you cannot assume whoever knows howto write a 
plugin using jQuery already knows howto write a js plasmoid (so all we have to 
do is to attract him). He will still have to learn plasma's javascript api's.

This is totally off-topic to this list, though.

(What i said is basically my understanding, which might be wrong. Please 
correct me if its the case)
 
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