Perth Hackfest October 2012/AJAX

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Why keep YUI?

• Important
  • Lots of work to convert
    • Cannot do piece by piece migration, need to convert everything at same time
  • JQuery doesn’t have widgets that Moodle uses
  • Has loader and dependency handlers
  • Adding another AJAX framework would cause performance problems
• Not important
  • Can be done inline with SimpleYUI

Why move away from YUI/Allow a second framework?

• Important
  • JQuery easier for simple things
  • YUI is massive to load
  • Plugin developers are using JQuery
  • Hard to theme
• Not important
  • Hard to find YUI devs
  • YUI is hard to learn
    • Easier to find code examples/help with JQuery than YUI
  • Requires greater JS understanding and we don’t have good documentation for it.

What needs to change?

• Better documentation
• Need to have plan to include/support JQuery
• Need policy
  • No core code will use it. If you want something included in core you will need to convert it.

• https://github.com/bumoodle/moodle-local_jquery

https://www.ohloh.net/p/yui

Forum thread on this discussion:

• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=211454
• Dear moodle, can we stop having the YUI lib yet?
  • https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=188627