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Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by waterside81 » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 11:50 AM UTC

I'm confused about how this or similar offerings like backbone would fit into an existing web app framework like django. Would you even use this for django or rails? Because at the surface, it seems like I'd have to retype my model definitions in JavaScript (or at least code generate them) and then use some JavaScript templating system instead of django's.

Can anybody shed some light on this for me?

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by swah » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 12:08 PM UTC

waterside81 wrote: post #31

I'm confused about how this or similar offerings like backbone would fit into an existing web app framework like django. Would you even use this for django or rails? Because at the surface, it seems like I'd have to retype my model definitions in JavaScript (or at least code generate them) and then use some JavaScript templating system instead of django's. Can anybody shed some light on this for me?

Your assumption is pretty right, with backbone and this you would normally receive the model data from your server via JSON, and handle display and interface on the client side (coding the UI in Javascript would be the major advantadge, because you can get a speedier UI).

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by jasdeepnarang » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 1:05 PM UTC

krelian wrote: post #4

Off topic but can a another Windows user can tell me if the text looks horrible to you as it does to me? http://i.imgur.com/rooNb.png I know Chrome has bad font rendering problems on Windows but this is just atrocious. Also FF is a bit better but not by much. This usually happens to me with webfonts only. The fact that I see so little complaints about this online make me think that perhaps it has something to do with…

Glorious Windows!

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by jasdeepnarang » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 1:08 PM UTC

we were planning to use Ember.js in our production app last week, but dropped the idea of using it after learning that API might change in 1.0 release at Throne Of JS (http://throneofjs.com)

Now, that we are much closer to 1.0 release, We'll re-visit the idea! The whole team was highly impressed by it.

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by nilliams » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 1:09 PM UTC

qatalo wrote: post #30

krelian wrote: post #4

Off topic but can a another Windows user can tell me if the text looks horrible to you as it does to me? http://i.imgur.com/rooNb.png I know Chrome has bad font rendering problems on Windows but this is just atrocious. Also FF is a bit better but not by much. This usually happens to me with webfonts only. The fact that I see so little complaints about this online make me think that perhaps it has something to do with…

this is a generic windows issue. usually noticed by users who switch over to it after using a mac for a while. lets just say font-aliasing is not one of windows strengths.

Whilst you're right that Windows fonts are generally rendered poorly in comparison to Mac/Linux, this is especially an issue with web-fonts afaict. Web-safe fonts like Arial, Georgia etc look (pretty much) fine under Windows.

In fact I think something else is at work here, because actually the main font this site is using is 'Lato' which looks just fine under Windows if you search for it at http://www.google.com/webfonts

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by Bjartr » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 1:51 PM UTC

waterside81 wrote: post #31

I'm confused about how this or similar offerings like backbone would fit into an existing web app framework like django. Would you even use this for django or rails? Because at the surface, it seems like I'd have to retype my model definitions in JavaScript (or at least code generate them) and then use some JavaScript templating system instead of django's. Can anybody shed some light on this for me?

I've been messing around a little with ember lately, I'm no expert, but from what I've tried using ember-data you can define the models directly from a REST endpoint response and pass that to your views or have other properties be dependent on them without ever explicitly specifying those fields exist.

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by kaonashi » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 7:16 PM UTC

kn8 wrote: post #29

krelian wrote: post #4

Off topic but can a another Windows user can tell me if the text looks horrible to you as it does to me? http://i.imgur.com/rooNb.png I know Chrome has bad font rendering problems on Windows but this is just atrocious. Also FF is a bit better but not by much. This usually happens to me with webfonts only. The fact that I see so little complaints about this online make me think that perhaps it has something to do with…

Could this be due to the background image?

That exacerbates it a bit, but the font is still pretty blocky unless you zoom the fuck out of it.

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by kanja » Sun, Aug 05, 2012, 3:31 AM UTC

sudonim wrote: post #17

really excited about this. We've been using Ember.js for a few months and I've been really impressed by the people in the community (at least in NYC). Here are some slides from a presentation my cofounder did about our journey from first commit to production deploy in 10 days: https://speakerdeck.com/u/jrallison/p/building-customerio-wi...

Where is the community congregating in nyc? I've missed out.

Re: Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

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Post by Axsuul » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 4:01 AM UTC

krelian wrote: post #4

Off topic but can a another Windows user can tell me if the text looks horrible to you as it does to me? http://i.imgur.com/rooNb.png I know Chrome has bad font rendering problems on Windows but this is just atrocious. Also FF is a bit better but not by much. This usually happens to me with webfonts only. The fact that I see so little complaints about this online make me think that perhaps it has something to do with…

Looks atrocious for me as well.