SUPER - SUPER - SUPER - GREAT!!!! i like to use both as soon as possible.
thanks a lot to jQuery and Jack Slocum team for these great products Best regards, Stefan Kilp > Hi Everyone - > > Today, we're proud to announce that the jQuery Project and Jack > Slocum's Ext Project, have partnered to integrate the amazingly > lightweight and powerful jQuery framework with Ext's awesome UI > library. This collaboration will greatly enhance the capabilities of > both projects and expand the functionality available to developers > using the jQuery JavaScript Library and the Ext UI component suite. > > Specifically, the upcoming Ext 1.0 release will be able to run, > natively, on the jQuery JavaScript Library. No other libraries will be > required. The jQuery and Ext teams are actively working together to > bring this integration to the Ext codebase. > > Here's some possible questions and answers (feel free to post any > others that you have here): > > What prompted the collaboration? > > Ext has some fantastic components - arguably, the best on the web. > jQuery has all the core functionality to support what Ext has. The > jQuery team contacted Jack Slocum with the hopes that we could work > together to add jQuery support to the Ext library, and Jack > whole-heartedly agreed. It's a win-win situation: jQuery gets some > awesome components, Ext gets a huge influx of new users. > > What are the benefits for jQuery and Ext users? > > jQuery users gain a huge number of expertly-designed components that > they will be able to deploy immediately. Additionally, they'll be able > to use them in a manner that better suits the jQuery philosophy (e.g. > being able to call Ext queries on sets of elements, chaining calls, > leveraging jQuery's support for true unobtrusive DOM scripting etc.) > > At the same time, existing Ext users will gain the flexibility of > being able to continue to use Ext's professional-caliber components > while leveraging the lightweight, small (~19k) and powerful jQuery > framework. > > How will the two teams work together? > > After the first beta release of Ext 1.0, jQuery will be providing a > strike team which will work to iron out all the integration points in > Ext. At the same time, Jack will be working to isolate all the > remaining framework-specific code, making it easier for us to finish > the conversion process. All of this will be in place for Ext's final > 1.0 release, which will support both Yahoo UI and jQuery. > > How will support be handled? > > The jQuery team will be providing support for any bugs that may only > exist in the jQuery version of Ext. > > Support for Ext, itself, will continue to be handled via the Ext > forums. The Ext project will also begin offering a level of paid > support for its corporate users. > > What Ext features will be included in Ext 1.0 for jQuery? > > All available Ext 1.0 features are going to be supported by jQuery. > > The final feature list, for Ext 1.0, is still being finalized but a > full breadth of new functionality can be expected. > > When will Ext 1.0 for jQuery be available? > > The final release date is still be finalized and we will make a formal > announcement on the jQuery blog, the jQuery mailing list, the Ext > project site and the Ext forums once the its ready to go. > > An alpha release of Ext 1.0 was just released, but does not, yet, > include the jQuery compatibility layer. > > Do any licensing issues exist? > > No. jQuery's licensing will remain the same, and Ext 1.0 will be > completely open source (LGPL). > > Additionally, corporations will be able to purchase an Ext support > license. This will include email support and SVN access, amongst other > features. > > If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here! > > --John > > Blog Post: > http://jquery.com/blog/2007/02/19/jquery-and-jack-slocums-ext/ > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ -- Stefan Kilp SK-Software, Entwicklung & Beratung email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fon : +49 6151 93344-0 fax : +49 6151 93344-20 Herta-Mansbacher-Str. 98 64289 Darmstadt, Germany. ----------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
