Dear Jakub ,
could you please suggest any other ideas or features so that i can
think upon them and come up with further good ideas.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Chaitanyaa Nalla wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am Chaitanya Nalla, a final year undergraduate student from India and I
>> am pretty much interested in doing the project "Adding javascript library /
>> framework in gitweb" suggested by respected Jakub. I have good experience
>> in javascript libraries like jQuery, Dojo etc. As per the goals of the
>> project I will use the efficient, concise, cross browser compatible
>> frameworks where ever needed.
>
> JavaScript library / framework is required not only to cover differences
> between web browsers in DOM manipulation, event handling and Ajax with
> XmlHttpRequest, but also add features which are still[1] lacking from
> JavaScript such as handling cookies, formatting strings, date manipulation,
> etc.
>
> Currently gitweb uses hand-crafted micro-library in `gitweb/static/js/lib/`
> Using existing JavaScript library, be it jQuery (most popular), Dojo,
> MooTools or YUI (probably too much for gitweb) will give us, as you said,
> well tested code, and new abilities like client-side sorting of tables
> which we would be able to use in further work.
>
> [1] http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2011/10/03/when-web-standards-fail-us/
>
>> Also I am planning to create a local library
>> version with support for configuration and a good documentation.
>
> I don't quite understand what you mean here. The JavaScript code specific
> to gitweb would have to be modified to use chosen JavaScript library, but
> I wouldn't say it is "local library". I'd rather we use stock JavaScript
> library, which would allow us to leverage existing CDNs like (for jQuery)
>
> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js
> http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.7.2.min.js
> http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js
>
> We probably would ultimately need to be able to serve local fallback copy
> (but this might be out of scope of GSoC project).
>
> This gitweb-specific JavaScript code (files in `gitweb/static/js/`)
> is IMVHO quite well documented using JSDoc.
>
>> Using the DOM features of JavaScript and traversing the whole document
>> object is quite cubersome and error prone, so I want to replace them using
>> well tested libraries that are cross browser compatible.
>
> I think there is missing "using hand-crafted code" in this sentence
> to make it sense.
>
>>
>> Emulating onprogress in XMLHttpRequest :
>>
>> jQuery and YUI provide only statuses success and error.
>
> Right.
>
>> Even MooTools provide progress but are constrained to some browers
>> only.
>
> To be more exact MooTools support 'onprogress' event handler only if
> web browser supports it. Not all do (e.g. older browsers), that is why
> there is need for emulation using timers.
>
>> It can be handled by using $.ajax Transport utility .
>
> You mean in jQuery here, isn't it? It would be a bit different, I think,
> in MooTools or YUI.
>
> C.f. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5652229/javascript-framework-with-or-easily-extendable-with-support-for-xmlhttprequest
>
>> I will also take care progressive enhancement, by carefully implementing the
>> basic functionality of the gitweb so that what ever may be the browser
>> version and type, internet connection the basic functionality will not
>> disrupted.
>
> Errr... "progressive enhancement" is about using client-side scripting
> in such way, that even if web browser doesn't support JavaScript
> (e.g. text browsers such as lynx, elinks or w3m), or has JavaScript
> turned off or blocked, we would get a basic functionality.
>
> Note also that "progressive enhancement" part applies only to writing
> new features, and this is strictly 'as time permits' part, I think.
> But I thin that you would need to lay more complete proposal, i.e.
> what features are you planning to add.
>
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
chaitanyaa nalla <nallachaitu@gmail.com>