VegUI - Window Manager and Widget Collection

Dietrich Kappe, Sunday, April 22, 2007 @ 10:04 pm

With complete and mature browser-side Ajax frameworks out there like Dojo, why should you even consider something small and comparatively new like VegUI? The reason is that thos frameworks aren't as complete and mature as you think they are. At this stage of the Ajax technology lifecycle, variety is the spice of life. If we had all settled on Prototype, we would have never gotten JQuery.

Also, sometimes a general purpose framework isn't as well suited to a particular task. VegUI was originally developed as a solution for an online game.

vegUI was originally developed to serve as a foundation for the online browser-based mmorpg Lands of Kazram. So it was developed with 4 core features in mind:

1. Speed
2. Compact Design
3. Total control over appearance, flexibility
4. Modular Design

...vegUI uses a template system, that allows you to define any vegUI element/widget as a template. Templates can then be used to clone as many duplicates as you want. This saves time and space while writing the code and also speeds up the loading process of the scripts.

It's Tetris demo is a little nicer and zippier than the YUI one (though not the hot SVG version). Now "tetris is more responsive" is admittedly not a good reason to pick a browser-side Ajax framework, but its is small, standards compliant, supports most browsers. Worth a look for those times that you need a little more than JQuery, but don't want to go all the way to Dojo.

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