[thelist] Which Free Opensource AJAX Framework is worth the time and effort?

Jose Hurtado jlhurtado at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 09:57:46 CDT 2006


Matt,

The BSD license for YUI is just great... and the documentation is first
class too.  Yahoo has a winner on their hands!

This framework should definitely be on every AJAX developer short list.

Jose L. Hurtado
Web Designer / IT Professional
Toronto, Canada

On 8/21/06, Matt Warden <mwarden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/20/06, sam foster <potatosculptor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I was just doing ajax dev for myself, or a nicely contained
> > end-point kind of site or application, I would choose Yui.
> ...
> > .. but I'm not, so I really need the extra extensibility, package
> > system and overall commitment I get from Dojo that it will take me as
> > far as I need to go, and play nice with others. Along the way I get
> > some nice goodies like the superb event system, lotsa widgets,
> > client-side storage api, browser backbutton / undo support,
> > environment agnostic codebase (doesnt assume a browser - nice for unit
> > tests and other automation) etc.
> > Dojo is very much commercial-friendly open source btw.
>
> I almost feel like you accidentally typed "Dojo" every time you meant
> to type "YUI." YUI is attempting to be an OS platform, not an ajax
> library or a library of widgets. I strongly suggest you take another
> look at YUI, because it sounds to be exactly what you're looking for.
> Oh, and it's BSD license, by the way.
>
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