AJAX/DHTML library scorecard
Just when I thought I am going research crazy I stumbled upon the AJAX/DHTML library scorecard at musingsfrommars.org.
The article reviews a lot and I mean a lot of DHTML/AJAX/JS libraries and categorises them into grades how cross-browser they are. If you want to pick a library to use instead of rolling your own solutions and you don’t want to leave a certain number of visitors standing in the rain, check this scorecard beforehand.
Great job!
The only annoying thing is the page itself. I’d have liked to print the lot out, but it won’t do that on Firefox.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
The HELL with DHTML!!! I was a javascript/DHTML or as today called AJAX a very long time and I found another way to work around the cancer factor as I call it (javascript development). I call it WebGui and it is my new development environment it is basically WinForms like API combined with a AJAX unique communication layer making it possible to create complex applications like “Outlook Web Access” as simple as creating a WinForms application…
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Seriously, with a tone like this I am not that enticed to link you and drive traffic to your sites. AJAX and DHTML are not the same and if you start with that attitude have fun with webforms and flex.
By the way: Adobe seems to disagree with you
May 20th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Hi Chris,
I meant to add this note when I first saw your writeup on my Ajax/DHTML libraries article, but you know how time seems to get away from you? Anyway, I could certainly make printing that full article out easier than it is, but it’s not that hard, actually. Here’s what you do (this works in all browsers I’ve tested, including Firefox):
1. Click the title to expand/load the content.
2. Click the “Expand all” link in the upper-right corner of that section. This will open all the writeups at once.
3. Print. In this state, the browser will print all the content that has display:block CSS attributes. Only items with display:none get ignored. Musings from Mars has a print style sheet that tries to format intelligently for printout, so the print version doesn’t look the same as the screen version, but that’s by design.
Let me know if this doesn’t work for you…
Cheers,
Leland