Drawbacks of KSS

Question

Has anyone here used KSS?

KSS is an AJAX framework.

KSS has both a client-side Javascript library and server-side support.

The client-side Javascript library needs to be included in your page. It fetches Kinetic style sheets from the server, parses them and binds a set of action to browser events and/or page elements. It is clean Javascript code that can peacefully coexist with other clean Javascript librarys(sic) like JQuery or ExtJS. It is about 100k in production mode. You can integrate your own Javascript code by using its extension mechanism through plugins.

I'm currently working on a project that uses it. Are there any drawbacks and gotchas to be aware of?

What's its cross browser support like?

At first as was really put off by the fact that you don't write the JS by hand, and actually translates a CSS-like file to JS behavior, but seeing in action, I've got to say that it really works quite well. But I haven't done any cross browser tests yet.

Answer 1

Some things that I've found:

• it sends HTML from the server, instead of XML and/or JSON and replacing them clientside, meaning higher messages (understandable)

• it has problems with scripts that add iframes dynamically on a KSS widget that you reload

• some things are hard to debug, while others are made easy thanks to KSS' integration with Firebug