Comments on: Javascript/AJAX UI libraries…

By: M.Al-Habshi

M.Al-Habshi — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:08:17 +0000

You should check http://openrecord.org/
it is based on Dojo . the project have screencast which shows you how to create dynamic webpages with quite no coding. the project is interesting regarding dynamic data in webpages.

By: glenn

glenn — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:03:45 +0000

Prototype does seem to be quite widely used. I may have to try it out first.

Anyway, I look forward to having a closer look at PlanHack when you release to see how its interface works. Thanks for comment, Jesse.

By: Jesse Kim

Jesse Kim — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:06:42 +0000

I use Prototype in PlanHack.

By: glenn

glenn — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:50:35 +0000

Script.aculo.us was one site I’d looked briefly at and forgotten about – thanks for the reminder.

I have similar feelings re: x-desktop. It’s clever and it looks like it would make a great app, but for most purposes I think it’s just overkill. Building up from a simpler base makes more sense to me.

Thanks for the comments, Kevin.

By: Kevin Dangoor

Kevin Dangoor — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:58:42 +0000

I’ve used MochiKit quite a bit. I like it because it includes Python idioms that I’m familiar with and it’s overall quite easy and robust. It’s well-documented and tested.

Odds are good that Yahoo!’s package is high-quality, but I haven’t even downloaded it, so I can’t really comment.

Dojo is some powerful stuff. It’s been a while since I touched it, but I know that Alex Russell and Co. no their JavaScript very well.

Script.aculo.us (which I believe has taken over Prototype) has fairly big mindshare because of its Ruby on Rails positioning. That said, it monkeys with Object.prototype which is not considered good form by many.

As with anything, it depends on what you’re trying to do. Something like x-desktop is not appealing to me. I prefer to start with a “standard” web page as a base and build up useful application bits on top of that, rather than trying to emulate a desktop in-browser.