Friday, October 14th, 2005
Ajax Framework Comparison
Category: Dojo, Editorial
, Prototype
Matt Harrison was talking about making choices between various Ajax toolkits, frameworks, or libraries.
He linked over to the OSA foundation and their Survey of AJAX/JavaScript Libraries.
Their survey discusses:
The world of Ajax libs is an interesting one, as they cover various functionality.
We blogged about the Ajax layers in the past:
NOTE: Michael Mahemoff also collected framework information
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this diagram is going to change a *lot* in coming years. i would be very surprised if a federation of disparate, independently developed tools (rails, dojo, etc) ends up being the preferred stack…not that it can’t be a high quality stack, but i suspect something with the imprint of mozilla.org or another open organizational body (gnu etc) is going to be deemed more palatable.
in general a desire to have a stronger language tool than javascript available for client scripting will surface. ultimately there has to be some language neutrality here to let the platform take off..every decent runtime/sysems platform, even ones like the jvm that start out as being geared to one language, end up gaining language neutrality. no matter how much hype i hear, i can’t accept javascript as the application language of the future.
You forgot to mention ajaxCFC (http://www.robgonda.com/blog/projects/ajaxcfc)
To querendo peidar
Javascript is ugly.
AJAX is everything except new.
AJAX should die in the next two years.
Its is richer than HTML, but will vanish as soon as a proper language (standardization of browers, new HTML ?) will appear.
Furthermore, not accessible.