« NPR news visualization | Main | Firefox, Google, Winer, scams »
February 16, 2006
JS framework comparison
JS framework comparison: Kevin Yank compares yesterday's Yahoo JavaScript UI library with Dojo, Prototype, and Zimbra's AJaX toolkit. The comparison doesn't go deep, but does give a good flavor of each project. The Yahoo User Interface library has a nice interface itself, with examples linked on the main page for each entry. While looking at these I had a very strong sense of deja vu... where Dreamweaver 1.0 put its JS animation power into the application's interface, Yahoo provides external textual material describing how to trigger it via text. Examples like the targeted drag'n'drop remind me of the JavaScript used in the CourseBuilder extensions for Dreamweaver. The big difference seems to be that development workflow here is text-based rather than UI-based. Related note: One big unknown for me here is the actual effect of multiple HTTP connections to fetch external CSS files, external JS files... an under-appreciated benefit of SWF file format is that the number of four-step HTTP negotiations is dramatically reduced and (with appropriate authoring) the content can start to display 'way before all media & instructions are transferred to the browser... no big thing, just affects scalability, and it's always hard for me to see what a page actually does when its source code is scattered among more than three or four files. Anyway, there's good stuff in these articles, as well as the Yahoo Design Patterns, but I'm a little puzzled at the differences in perception of such material over the last decade.... [via Chris Cornutt]
Posted by John Dowdell at February 16, 2006 01:21 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mtadmin/mt-tb.cgi/7089