| Issue 233: | Include new MIT licensed Ext Core library in the Ajax Libraries API | |
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Ext Core is a lightweight and feature rich core JavaScript library available under an MIT license. Ext Core is packed full of exciting features intended to allow for rapid web development while encouraging well designed and scalable code. Ext Core provides abstractions for DOM manipulation/traversal, Ajax, Events and custom events, animations, templating, OO mechanisms and more. It's MIT licensed, so there shouldn't be any concerns WRT licensing issues that previously kept Extjs out of the Ajax API. Please note that Ext Core is not the same as Extjs, and is only a single ~25k compressed and gzipped file. Ext Core would be a great addition to Google's Ajax Libraries API http://extjs.com/products/extcore/ Ext Core is also well documented: http://extjs.com/products/extcore/manual/ http://extjs.com/products/extcore/docs/ Thanks! |
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May 27, 2009
Ext has its own CDN at cachefly. Why does it need to be on Google? Ext is a shady company with a known history of switching licensing. We don't need another bait and switch. |
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May 27, 2009
Ext Core is not the Extjs GUI toolkit Also, Cachefly does not provide a secure CDN (https). The Ext Core library license won't change, it will continue to be MIT licensed and separate from the GUI toolkit. Please read the entire report before you comment. |
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May 27, 2009
scubacarrib92 - if you got nothing sensical to say then keep your personal bias to yourself or at least research into matter before slandering. ExtCore library is a lightweight utility library provided under permissive open source licence. It is comparable to any other widely spread libraries such as prototype and other similar ones |
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May 28, 2009
@scubacarrib92 - As noted in other posts - the ExtJS Core is MIT. What you get for free is amazing, well thought out and is the core of a tried and true library. Saying it should not be included because "I don't like the company" is not very technical. Using ExtJS Core means you are ready to extend your site using the full product when it comes time to build your rich internet apps. The full ExtJS product is hands down the best framework out there. As for your "bait and switch" ... I would much rather pay to support a company that is supporting me with some seriously advanced JS functionality. There is a dual license for open source projects. Do you really expect some magic money genie to keep a company going while you reap the benefits of a team of full time genius programmers and don't want to pay around 300 bucks for a license? The time I save paid for itself in hours. Summary ExtJS Core is one of the best if not THE best light weight library out there, even in beta form. This is due to being the core of a long running, top notch library. I would say that ExtJS needs to release a stable version of the core before it goes in naturally :o) |
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Jun 10, 2009
Good news! Ext core has been added!
google.load('ext-core', '3');
google.load('ext-core', '3', {uncompressed : true});
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Jun 10, 2009
The final release of Ext core is out. Check out the new post about using Ext core to build a star rating widget: http://extjs.com/blog/2009/06/10/building-a-rating-widget-with-ext-core-30-final-and-google-cdn/ It also includes the announcement of Ext core being added to the API |
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Jun 11, 2009
(No comment was entered for this change.)
Status: Fixed
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Jun 12, 2009
@ gewroo EXTJS releases products as open source yet don't provide repository access so when something gets fixed in svn they don't tell everyone just the paid subscribers. MySQL was released with the same dual license (GPL/Commercial License) yet they provided read svn access to everyone. Google shouldn't be supporting this company, the bait and switch they pulled with earlier releases just proves what kind of people they really are and doesn't fall under the 'Don't be evil' Google slogan. If you search the extjs forums you'll see plenty of examples of ext support team say 'fixed in svn' with no code provided to the forums until someone begs to get the fix released. |
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Jun 12, 2009
@Bob You make a good point about SVN access and I think SVN access to the ExtJS Core would be great. That said - I have worked with product and interacted with the company for years and say that google SHOULD be supporting this company. So the readers can decide if they want to take the details from someone with an attitude towards the company and no actual experience they can share .... or from someone with years of actual experience. What type of official responses do you get from the active programming / support team when you post on a JQuery or Dojo forum .. or even mySQL? That is not a hypothetical question - do you post on those formums and if so, do you get official answers from support / programming teams the same day? I can say after years of working with the tool and the ExtJS team, they are top notch and very responsive. |
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Aug 04, 2009
@Everyone I just wanted to let you guys know that we have made the Ext Core SVN public (read-only). You can find the details on the downloads page here: http://extjs.com/products/extcore/download.php . There is also an online SVN Commit Log available here: http://extjs.com/products/extcore/commitlog.php |
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Aug 04, 2009
Thanks Tommy! That's good news |
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