Javascript Toolkit Comparison
With the increased demand of "WEB 2.0" features such as drag 'n drop, AJAX, and client-side processing, the need for a robust javascript library in uPortal 3 becomes more and more obvious. These pages are dedicated to discussion around the many available javascript libraries*. I will focus mainly on the 6 with the most hype currently: Prototype, Dojo, Mochikit, Yahoo! UI, Google, and JQuery. Feel free to add any others which might be worth considering. For a good article reviewing some of these libraries, visit sitepoint.com.
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Refined UI effect examples |
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Filesize Range (KB) | 46-137 | 18-276 | 5-113 | 2-300 |
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Licensing | AFL / BSD | MIT/AFL | Apache ** | MIT | ||
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Other JS libraries not evaluated here:
Zimbra Ajax TK (Kabuki)
DWR
* I will assume that the terms library, toolkit, and framework are inter-changeable. This may merit its own discussion page, just not here.
** Google offers its Java libraries under Apache license, but its Java to Javascript converter is proprietary.