I've been trying for a year or two now. I've tried doing my own thing. I've tried libraries... *sigh*

The bottom line is that it just sucks. Much more so than regular web development. I'd even go so far as to say it sucks more than doing PERL cgi.

My latest attempt: a mutant MVC framework using jQuery and Taconite (for jQuery). Oh and 6 other jQuery plugins. It acutally almost worked pretty sweetly. Then I tried to get some kind of browser history and it all fell apart. The history plugin didn't fit very well to the framework and I couldn't adapt it or make my code fit the plugin. It also didn't work in Opera. So now what?

Turns out that maintaining browser history with ajax is a massive hack (so large that they gave it a name: Hijax). Here's another sigh: *sigh*.

I spent 4 days writing, debugging and modifying this "framework." I replaced it in 4 hours.

The new mutant framework has a CherryPy inspired router, uses native PHP for Views, PDO for the "model" component and seems to work decently so far. It's very light (5 files - 4k), and it's very light on error handling. :)

So maybe I can write an ajax autocomplete thing for this site when(read: if) people start visiting. It'll be easier to leave the same hateful comments.

I meant to upload the C# colorspy I mentioned yesterday, but I didn't get home till late. I'll do it today. (Maybe)