Friday, August 29th, 2008
Category: Dojo, Prototype, The Ajax Experience, jQuery
We talked a few months ago about something new we’re doing at the Ajax Experience this year: the “Framework Summit.” Basically, we’re providing space for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo to hold their own half-day events on-site, and these events are free and open to the general public.
Since we announced the summit, the frameworks have created their agendas for their events for their events:
Dojo Developer Day:
- Welcome, Introductions (Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann)
- Tutorial – Progressive Dojo (Peter Higgins)
- Presentation – DojoX GFX and FX (Matthew Russell)
- Presentation – Secrets of DojoX (Tom Trenka)
- Tutorial – Getting going … Zend + Dojo (Matthew O’Phinney)
- Tutorial – Dijit Layouts In and Out (Nikolai Onken)
- Tutorial – Reusable code, Widgeting (Peter Higgins)
- Community – Getting Involved (Peter Higgins, Nikolai Onken)
- Lightning Demos – What do you have? Show us.
Prototype Developer Day
- Welcome, Introductions (Prototype Core members)
- Contributing docs (Christophe Porteneuve)
- Contributing code (Andrew Dupont)
- Prototype & Performance
- Extended Q&A (Prototype Core members)
jQuery Developer Day
- State of jQuery (Rey Bango)
- Progressively Enhancing the User Experience Using jQuery (Karl Swedberg)
- An In-Depth Look at jQuery UI (Paul Bakaus)
- jQuery Team Code Review (jQuery Team)
Other Frameworks?
Some have asked why we didn’t also include Framework X, Y, and Z at the summit. We have a simple answer: we only had room for three frameworks so we choose the three most popular frameworks (according to every survey we’ve seen). If the concept is successful this time around, we hope to do it on a bigger scale next year.
Obviously we hope you can make it to the entire Ajax Experience event, but if you can’t do that, consider coming to one of the Framework Summit events. See you there!
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Category: The Ajax Experience
We’re pleased to announce that registration for The Ajax Experience is now open! The event is being held in Boston this year, from September 29 to October 1.
Mini-Events
In addition to the usual agenda full of interesting sessions and compelling content, we’re pleased to announce that concurrent with the Ajax Experience, several of the most popular Ajax frameworks will be holding “mini-events” that are both open to attendees and the general public. We’re giving space to representatives from Dojo, jQuery, and Prototype to hold half-day events focusing on their own frameworks. These events run at the same time as a special “introductory” track of content geared towards attendees who are new to Ajax.
We couldn’t be happier about how this has worked out and we hope both attendees and others who are able to attend enjoy these mini-events. More details coming soon.
Cross-Browser Keynote
Another interesting new feature of the show this year is a unique keynote we’re putting together with Peter-Paul Koch (ppk) of Quirksmode.org and folks from Dojo, jQuery, and Prototype. ppk is preparing a presentation detailing the top cross-browser compatibility issues facing Web developers today, and following his remarks, attendees will get briefings on how these popular Ajax frameworks help Web developers address the issues raised by ppk.
Every time we survey attendees and members of the community about what issues they care about most, cross-browser compatibility is either in the top slot or close to it. This should be a pretty cool dissemination of the best information on the topic.
Early Bird Registration Ends August 22…
…so stop on by and get yourself a seat at the show!
Monday, December 17th, 2007
Category: Ajax, Survey
Thanks to the Ajaxian community for getting in feedback so quickly on the third annual survey. Richard has written up his thoughts on the data, which we have to remember, accounts for a small percentage of developers, and those that visit Ajaxian are probably not the norm ;)
That being said, it is interesting to take a peak at the data (which is open for everyone to slice and dice), and Richard has some good thoughts:
What is interesting about the Ajax market is that it’s more diversified in 2007 than it was in 2005 – the number of toolkits keep growing and jostling position in terms of usage. Right now there are 241 Ajax toolkits and related libraries listed in the survey. There were about three dozen in 2005 and 170 in 2006. The number of options is growing.
Prototype and Script.aculo.us are the only toolkits to maintain a lead over the past three years. However, over all there are no clear winners or losers as even the strongest incumbents (i.e., Prototype and Script.aculo.us) are starting too loose ground. Some frameworks initially popular have faded nearly completely out of the market (i.e., xajax and Rico ) while others have have sprung out of nowhere to become leading tookits (i.e., jQuery and Ext JS). The changes over the past three years are easy to see in the stack chart at the end of this blog, which shows the market share of the most popular toolkits – notice how they grow and shrink in market share. That means that the market remains immature.
What is astonishing is the nearly complete lack of commercial Ajax frameworks. Backbase has had a lot of success making a comeback after loosing some market share in 2006, but other commercial Ajax frameworks have not been so lucky.
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Category: Survey
Back in July, we held our third annual Ajax Reader Survey. The results are in. Some interesting observations:
- Prototype and Scriptaculous still dominate the field with 68% and 59% of readers using them, respectively. jQuery has a respectable 48% share. Yahoo UI!, Dojo, and Ext JS round out the top six. Google Gears enjoys usage by 22% of survey participants–pretty amazing for its youth. Despite Java’s popularity amongst our readers, DWR is only used by 13% of readers, which surprised us.
- A little over 50% of readers use PHP, and about 40% use Java. Only 20% of readers use .NET technologies.
- The biggest concern on your mind? Cross-browser rendering issues, with 60% of you listing it as your biggest concern.
What questions/frameworks did we leave out? What do you think of the results?
UPDATE: There were 826 total responses to the survey. (Sorry this was left out of the PDF.)
UPDATE 2: It turns out MooTools received a whopping 11.3% of “Other” write-ins for the Frameworks question. Who knows how high it would have ranked if there was a direct option for it. In any event, we apologize for neglecting to include it.
UPDATE 3: We’ve updated the PDF to include the data in the previous updates.
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Category: Survey
The results of our second annual Ajaxian.com survey, prepared by Richard Monson-Hafael from the Burton Group, are in. And the winner is… Prototype, the most popular Ajax framework, by a considerable margin: 43% of you use it. Script.aculo.us is next, at 33%, confirming observations that many of made of the popularity of that duo.
The full results of our framework survey follow:
Note that multiple responses per participant were allowed; we’ve also thrown out any result with less than 3% of responses in the above graphic.
We also asked you about the server-side platform you’re using. The big winner here was PHP, with 50% of you using it:
Some other interesting factoids:
- 25% of you eschew frameworks and work with XMLHttpRequest directly (wow!)
- 11% of you are using JSON to transfer data; unfortunately, we didn’t ask enough questions to determine how this compares with XML or other data formats
- 3% of you are still using Microsoft’s “classic” ASP framework; five of you (~0.6%) are using C++ (+2 points for increased performance, -100 for increased complexity?)
- 2% of you wrote in to say that you’re using Adobe’s Flex toolkit (hey, those banner ads are working out…); 2% also indicated that they use the Flex/Ajax bridge. Unfortunately, the survey software we used doesn’t let us correlate these entries, so we can only say that 2%-4% of you are using Flex in some way
- One participant uses Delphi (how’s that working out for you?), and another is using LISP (can we hire you?).
The survey results are based on 865 participants over the course of a week in September, 2006. The raw results are available.
UPDATED: Changed the wording of the Adobe Flex bullet above to be more accurate.
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Category: Survey
Richard Monson-Haefel, Sr. Analyst for Burton Group, has posted a very short web survey (3 simple questions) for the Ajax community in order to determine which Ajax frameworks, libraries and toolkits are the most popular. Please take two minutes to fill out the survey. Results will be posted later in the week when the survey is closed.
The questions are:
- I am currently using Ajax frameworks, toolkits, or libraries
- I’m using Ajax in conjuntion with
- I mostly use the following Ajax frameworks, toolkits, or libraries
Click here to take survey
