Friday, October 14th, 2005
Category: Dojo
, Editorial
, Prototype
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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
- Microsoft views Ajax/RIA in Silverlight
At the recent Ajax Experience conference in San Francisco, Matt Gibbs, a development manager at Microsoft, presented an overview of Silverlight, the...
- Will Ajax kill Web frameworks?
Developer James Strachan wonders if the ascendance of Ajax means that HTTP and HTML will become legacy...
- ASP.NET Ajax Tutorial
This reference introduces developers to Microsoft's ASP.NET Ajax framework with a plethora of tips, tutorials and...
- Ajax gets content management framework
MODx, an open source application framework, is touted for providing Ajax content management capabilities. Designed for the Ajax and Web 2.0 world, it...
- Ajax frameworks reviewed
Reviewers provide an overview of current commercial JSF frameworks that use Ajax to update Web sites. Three frameworks, Icefaces, Netadvantage and...
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.