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A comment on Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?.

Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? by abdulhaq on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:22PM (#447245)
If you do it yourself, does it count as a framework?

Server: python, postgresql, cherrypy, simplejson

Client: Javascript, HTML, CSS, Dojo, AJAX.

All the HTML is loaded up front and then AJAX for all the rest. Dojo insulates me from browser quirks. TDD Python is what I use at work (and love) and is good for complex algorithms (language morphology, in arabic).

I don't use an all-encompassing framework because I need total UTF-8 support and I feel more comfortable with the general tailorability of the lower-level libraries over the likes of Django, Rails.

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Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? by BinaryPie on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:55PM (#447313)
I'll never understand why people use DoJo.

Its greatest strength are all the "widgets" i guess you'd call them. However they are all not created equal. Some are well polished and deliver acceptable performance levels and other times they are just demos and hacks.

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Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? by tdavis on Friday January 23, 2009 @07:57PM (#447508)
The Dojo examples page always froze my browser. Even after switching computers and operating systems, it would hang for a while. I never did figure out if it was just me or nobody else seemed to notice.
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Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? by dreur on Friday January 23, 2009 @08:01PM (#447512)
I noticed too :)

Just wondering why Zend chose it as their main ajax framework.

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Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? by scotth on Saturday January 24, 2009 @09:10AM (#448102)
Spring WebFlow did too. It boggles the mind.
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Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? by abdulhaq on Saturday January 24, 2009 @04:41AM (#447953)
What do you recommend, in terms of widgets?
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Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? by andrewljohnson on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:50PM (#447298)
I use Django, but only for template inheritance and models - I pretty much leave the template language alone. 99% of the data from the server gets passed out as json.
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