I’ve been unfortunate enough to have to use Ext JS. I came away from the experience with the impression that it’s slow, bloated and over complicated. Never again.
Menu
Ext.onReady(function() {
var menu = new Ext.menu.Menu({
items: [
{text:'sub test',
menu: {
items: [
{text:'sub sub test',
menu: {
items:
[
]
}
},
]
}
},
{
text:'another item',
menu: {
items: []
}
}
]
});
var tb = new Ext.Toolbar({renderTo:'toolbar'});
tb.add({
text:'Dashboard',
menu: menu
});
});
First impressions
(Nothing to see here. Please move on)
- REALLY bloody slow.
- Can’t make a button in a toolbar an anchor, without using a javascript handler function. i.e. one handler per link!
- Everything is created using tables within tables.
- Styling is a nightmare because of the above.
- I’m sure there’s a memory leak in it because every time I open a couple of pages built on extjs (e.g. extjs.com) firefox eventually ends up consuming huge amounts of memory, even after the pages are closed.
- Useless error messages with ext-all-debug.js, e.g.
comp is undefined
}else if(!comp.events){
- One slight mistake in your JS and it effects other elements on the page, e.g. page with a toolbar along top, form in content with mistake in JS, you get TWO identical toolbars. Note: All div names differ, so it’s not an element reference thing.
