document.querySelector is basically just jQuery's $, but as a standard browser feature.
jQuery UI maybe not - as you say, much (but not all) of what it was good for can now be done directly in HTML5. However, it gives me an architecture for building custom widgets (and a wide range of existing examples to start from) which is what I need, since my HTML skills are rudimentary (to say the least!) and I want to spend my time writing Propeller stuff, not webby stuff.
Huh. I was expecting you to defend jQuery UI more strongly than jQuery - building hybrid custom controls is still often nontrivial with plain DOM, and I wouldn't mind a decent widget library as long as it was small, had no dependencies, and used the modern DOM APIs.
Huh. I was expecting you to defend jQuery UI more strongly than jQuery - building hybrid custom controls is still often nontrivial with plain DOM, and I wouldn't mind a decent widget library as long as it was small, had no dependencies, and used the modern DOM APIs.
You may be right - I am going mainly by what I read online. For myself, I know just enough JavaScript, HTML and jQuery to be dangerous
But what I do know is that when I went looking for free and open source widgets suitable for what I want to do, I found lots of ready-made jQuery ones that were simple enough that I could modify them to suit my needs. Plenty of nice and shiny (and expensive!) frameworks, but not a lot of stand-alone libraries, which is what I need.
I'll post a working demo in the main Catalina thread sometime soon. It is very rough and ready - really more of a simple proof of concept - but the HTML and JavaScript are in a separate file to the Lua code, so you could easily re-code the entire web side in HTML5 etc. It is the Lua stuff that I am interested in, not the web stuff.
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Are you not familiar with modern JS? You can do all the main things jQuery used to do in plain vanilla JS with the likes of
const msg = document.querySelector("#msg"); document.querySelector("#my_button").addListener("name", (e) => msg.innerText = "Button clicked!");document.querySelectoris basically just jQuery's$, but as a standard browser feature.Huh. I was expecting you to defend jQuery UI more strongly than jQuery - building hybrid custom controls is still often nontrivial with plain DOM, and I wouldn't mind a decent widget library as long as it was small, had no dependencies, and used the modern DOM APIs.
You may be right - I am going mainly by what I read online. For myself, I know just enough JavaScript, HTML and jQuery to be dangerous
But what I do know is that when I went looking for free and open source widgets suitable for what I want to do, I found lots of ready-made jQuery ones that were simple enough that I could modify them to suit my needs. Plenty of nice and shiny (and expensive!) frameworks, but not a lot of stand-alone libraries, which is what I need.
I'll post a working demo in the main Catalina thread sometime soon. It is very rough and ready - really more of a simple proof of concept - but the HTML and JavaScript are in a separate file to the Lua code, so you could easily re-code the entire web side in HTML5 etc. It is the Lua stuff that I am interested in, not the web stuff.
Ross.