Dr. Dobbs picks their favorite Javascript Framework
| Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 | --jr |
Ok, so granted, if you're here reading "Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day", you can probably guess which of the five Javascript frameworks the editors of Dr. Dobb's picked, but in interests of being fair:
Spoiler Alert!
With several criteria in hand, our next task was to decide which AJAX library to use. To ensure an objective decision, we used the decision matrix in Table 1. The criteria included widget availability, maintainability by both UI specialist and Java developer, download size to browser, and documentation. We recommend you make your own list, as your criteria may differ.
Our development team settled on the Yahoo! User Interface Library. And in the long run, our decision worked well for this and other projects.
Definitely check out the full article, though. It presents a good breakdown of YUI, Dojo, Prototype. All of which are fantastic resources and have huge benefits to offer.