6 popular Javascript Frameworks

Apr28
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Javascript frameworks are for easing development and dynamic web apps.
These toolkits enables you to deal with Ajax calls in an easy and fun way and it’s also cross browser safe.

It can be handy, if you know already something about JSON:
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write and it is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition – December 1999.
JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.

It’s a personal choice which of the Javascript Frameworks you should choose.
Basically they are all more or less providing you the same functionality, and they all
contain excellent documentation and API’s with examples.
I will show you the 6 most popular frameworks, and tell you the current version,
download link and which websites these frameworks use. Also the size of the .js file,
which is an important detail.

JQuery Prototype Dojo Mootools Spry YUI
Version: 1.3.2 1.6.0.3 1.3.0 1.2.2. 1.6.1 2.7.0
Size: 56KB / 117kB * 127KB 80KB / 305kB * 64KB / 97kB * 4.88MB 11.7MB
Clients Google, Dell, Mozilla, Bank of America (Microsoft, Nokia) Apple, CNN, Twitter, Digg, eBAY, Sony, Prada, Wired, Amazon Salesforce, IBM, AOL, Apple, Ask.com, SUN, Zend Framework, Lufthansa Joomla, Nintendo, Gamespot, W3C, Netvibes Adobe Yahoo, KLM

* = compressed gzipped / uncompressed


One Response to “6 popular Javascript Frameworks”

Hi, Lee, I like your cartoon picture about Cloud Computing. Your blog is really very cool. Enjoy, Richard

Richard on April 30th, 2009 at 7:11 AM

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