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- MikeonTV, on 11/17/2007, -2/+45Great list, where did you get it from? *cough* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_applicati ... */cough*
- scanman20, on 11/17/2007, -0/+7This library is better than that one, that library is better than this one, blah, blah blah. You use whatever works and fits your style. Variety is the something something.
- Yarnage, on 11/17/2007, -1/+8Hmmm
DHTML = JavaScript manipulating HTML
AJAX = JavaScript making async calls
So, why are we calling them Ajax, Javascript and DHTML Libraries? Shouldn't they all just be JavaScript libraries? - IEatHamburgers, on 11/17/2007, -1/+6I think you need to get that checked out, it's not normal to be coughing links dude
- silenceHR, on 11/17/2007, -1/+6blogspam
- fatbyjhnsn, on 11/17/2007, -6/+10Digger who shout to others should leave their shouts open so the rest of us can bother them with our submissions. It's only fair, right?
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4I typically just code out all the garbage on my own rather than use a toolkit. But I think the web is due for a new protocol. Get rid of all these hacks to make desktop apps on the web. We've layered so much on top of so much, that its really all convoluted now. There has to be a better, simpler way.
- banty19, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3This is practically useless. I don't want sift through all of these libraries, most of which are probably crap. How about listing the ones you think are the best? What about not ripping it off from Wikipedia?
- wicketr, on 11/17/2007, -2/+4"Real desktop apps" are made with real programming languages. Try to learn them. The day desktop apps are made with PHP is the day that programmers are a dime a dozen and all applications run like AOL.
- CapnDeviance, on 11/17/2007, -2/+4Everyone knows one only reads Playboy for the articles.
- debuggercll, on 11/17/2007, -1/+3Most communist statement ever. I love jQuery but I hate what you just said.
Not everyone is too brain dead to spend 5 minutes on research to decide which one of the JS files they want to include. You may have not noticed but there's a logical order to them, so that kind of makes the job easy as can be. - Subcranium, on 11/18/2007, -0/+2I hope you're using Firebug.
- icexe, on 11/17/2007, -2/+4IMO, jQuery beats everything else hands down. Its fast, light, powerful and yet very easy to learn. What more could you ask for?
- Subcranium, on 11/18/2007, -0/+2Some help you toward that end, but it's still really up to the programmer to see to it.
- blapierre, on 11/17/2007, -1/+3No mootools? This list fails.
- Spektr4, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2I recently looked into jquery, and their UI widgets and effects are not ready for primetime. I found that YUI delivers the goods.
- DKDiveDude, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1Problem: Get browser width to PHP session variable without reload. I need the browser width to automatically switch article columns from one to two.
Tried to grab browser screen width with Javascript and using XMLHTTPRequest to send it to a PHP Session variable. However back in my main PHP page the session variable is empty until a reload is done.
What to do? - jsebrech, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2A list of dhtml libraries without extjs is like playboy magazine without naked women.
- drupaldreamers, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2yeah, aptana is good, but you have to pay for it.
- Subcranium, on 11/18/2007, -0/+1I've given up on everything but jQuery. I was doing a lot of DOM manipulations and jQuery cut so much code out that it made room for itself!
I've never been so impressed by a library before. - drupaldreamers, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Aptana is FOSS, I know. But I know either there is PRO version. Does FOSS aptana has JS debug capability?
- tcomputerchip, on 11/18/2007, -0/+1YUI is also very good, also it depends what you are doing. jquery does much what the other library's do.
The problem is, sometimes the performance of the library is what developers choose.
For example, jquery is really slow for full blown image manipulation, and YUI proved to also have some slowness.
But using some YUI, in combination with a custom prototype we wrote internal. We where able to get the performance we wanted.
Plus, here is the BIG one companies look at. The license agreement, YUI is the best license possible, its under the BSD license and it means you are free to use it for what ever you want. - jonathansoeder, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1This list fails, as it does not include ExtJS -- which, as of their 2.0 version -- is one of the best libraries out there.
- positron, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1Aptana is FOSS software. If you paid for it, you were either paying the Aptana dev team or a 3rd party developer for updates and support, or you got screwed.
- Zachariah, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1do these degrade gracefully?
- xqb4dpx, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1jquery runs on all of my sites. i like to save size over the more advance features that i don't need. and their effects are okay, but they aren't anywhere close to MooTools
- positron, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1Aptana for all your web dev needs.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -5/+5Just use jQuery, all those other libraries are huge and complicated. jQuery is just 1 file and the syntax makes sense. I'm sure the other libraries are nice but you have to know them inside and out, because you have to deal with 100+ JS files and know which ones to load up when you need to do something. jQuery also has a lot of plugins, so if you are looking for widgets, take a look at their plugin collection.
- oliverlangan, on 11/21/2007, -0/+0Either I don't understand the question, or you are mistaken about how and when the php and JavaScript are being interpreted. It is certainly possible to update a php session variable via an Ajax call, as you suggest, but that variable will never be 'refreshed' on the page that made the Ajax call: php is not executing on the already-rendered page.
- canines, on 11/18/2007, -0/+0Also missed was FlapJax - a relative newcomer with a few twists.
- scrappyvintage, on 11/18/2007, -1/+1No, they read for the cartoons.
- oliverlangan, on 11/21/2007, -0/+0http://dean.edwards.name/my/cssQuery/
But really, the 'chainability', iterators, and simplified ajax in jQuery are worth the size. - thetin, on 11/18/2007, -1/+1Is there an ajax library that does only selectors (much like jquery)
ex $("#title")
And that's it...just the selectors. Around 4kbs? - drupaldreamers, on 11/17/2007, -1/+0agreed. JQuery is better than everything I've used before
- mike503, on 11/18/2007, -1/+0all you need is jquery. why even bother with anything else anymore.
- mikerand, on 11/19/2007, -1/+0Oh yeah, Firebug makes JavaScript development tolerable.
- EXreaction, on 11/17/2007, -3/+2Agreed, I love PHP, but I hate HTML...especially with all the cross browser ***** that I need to deal with. It would be so damned nice if I could make something that acted like a real desktop app with PHP, something like you'd make with Visual C++.
- mikerand, on 11/17/2007, -2/+0Can anyone recommend a great JavaScript IDE? That's needed much more than libraries.
- Atomic1fire, on 11/17/2007, -3/+1that would be to simple
like calling a ford a chevy and a mustang a car
because its what they are - inactive, on 11/17/2007, -7/+1Why would you want to download a library, it would take for ever...
(anyway... ive only used like 2 of these listed,but it seems like a nice list)
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