I have to admit that I never really liked JavaScript development. And I still don't want to waste my time with it. Period. But still, javascript brings some nice possibilities to enhance Webapps (ever heard of that Ajax or Web 2.0 thingy? ;-)). So my goal is to enhance my plain old html code with some good looking javascript goodies.

I've looked at GWT but I want to my website to work without javascript - so GWT was not an option. I've looked at Ext.JS but it's licence is not very business friendly and I don't like that. I've looked at Dojo and I liked it but I've wasted about a day trying to figure out how to create a datepicker programmatically including setting, manipulating or reading the date with javascript. Now I've decided to move over to jQuery. Within two hours or so I was able to find some nice looking tooltip and datepicker plugins. I doubt that I'll ever have fun writing javascript - so hope that I'll be able find jQuery Plugins fitting all my needs. Till now it looks quite promising...

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Posted by Kai Grabfelder on November 21, 2008 11:20:00 PM CET #