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Thanks for updating and replying. And by the way, for engineers needing more direct guidance, stay tuned. You may like what is coming down the pipe.

Thank you for the update, we’ve updated the post as per your notes.

Re: Patterntap – Having missed your user commentary, I added them as an alternative, not as a “better” library than Quince.

In all fairness, you have a lengthy “Benefits” section in which I applaud your efforts to democratize, organize and distribute your content – I believe you are the library to beat in this regard. We’re huge fans of Quince as a resource, but this article is geared towards UI engineers looking for UX love.

Obviously Jquery is but one example of how to bridge pattern libraries to stable frameworks. If you follow the thrust of the article, this is a primer where we use examples to make a case. Thank you for providing benchmarks necessary to make our case.

Cheers,

-Jon Fukuda

Just ran across this today; sorry for dredging up an old post, but just wanted to correct a couple things and update you.

First, you say Quince doesn’t support user commentary, but it does. It’s understandable that you might miss this because it is below the fold on the pattern viewer–something we were concerned about and are addressing in our next major update.

Second, we are not trying to conceal any secret sauce. Good grief.. you are entirely too jaded.. No, writing good, widely-reusable controls is very complex and well outside of the scope of Quince’s guidance which was primarily UX-centric and technology-agnostic. However, we did receive a fair bit of feedback asking us to tell folks how to implement patterns using Infragistics stuff, so we have gone through and added a section to such patterns as we can directly help with.

We do also link gratuitously to examples and sites like the Yahoo! library, which also offers implementations of some patterns based on their frameworks. All of this is meant to empower people to create solutions that foster good experiences no matter what tech they are using, without presuming, for example, that folks are only building on the Web and could, ergo, use JQuery.

Finally, I’m surprised you suggest Pattern Tap is an alternative to Quince. It is certainly complementary in the sense of offering other examples, but it is just a collection of examples and doesn’t bother helping folks to understand the when, why, or how beyond what you can infer from examples. Considering you criticized Quince for not going far enough in telling folks how to implement, such a comparison seems a little inequitable. But of course, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion…