MochiKit has a home
MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript.
Check out at at mochikit.com!
This is good.
When you say tested, did you test these on Spider Monkey? We have a Spider Monkey embedded in a comercial app I work on during the day.
Also I am curious what those widgets use on Tiger. Or how about Konfabulator? Do you know?
Comment by Brian Ray — 2005-07-27 @ 9:22 pm
Our current test bed is Safari 2.0, Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.0.5, and Deer Park alpha 2. MochiKit is 100% ECMA-262 compliant, except for MochiKit.DOM, MochiKit.Async and MochiKit.Visual, of course. They use the various other appropriate standards-based APIs (W3C DOM ECMAScript bindings, window.setTimeout, window.onload, and XMLHttpRequest/XMLHTTP).
At some point we *might* also be testing with Rhino, and maybe even Spider Monkey and standalone JScript, if only because it’s easier to automate testing. It’s not very high priority for us, because frankly there are better languages out there and we’re only doing this JavaScript stuff because there’s no alternative.
MochiKit.Base and MochiKit.Iter will work in anything ECMA-262 compliant. Spider Monkey should be one of those things.
Almost all of MochiKit.Visual’s Color object should work anywhere (not fromBackground, of course). The Color object will probably have its own home at some point, though it will always be visible from MochiKit.Visual for compatibility reasons, if it does move. It’s quite a large body of code (comparatively speaking), due to the HSL/RGB algorithms and the complete SVG 1.0 color keyword table.
Widgets in Tiger use WebKit, so it’s not going to behave any differently than Safari. In other words, it works great. As for Konfabulator, I remember hearing that they embed Mozilla somehow, but I have no experience with it.
Comment by Bob Ippolito — 2005-07-27 @ 9:35 pm