Through the past few years I’ve been busy with server side programming and I kinda ignored these JavaScript libraries. Because of my good knowledge and long experience with JavaScript I always wrote everything from mostly scratch. Even back then it seemed stupid but I guess it was more the challenge and student mentality. Recently I’ve started working with YUI, Javascript and Prototype and I easily do what I want however I haven’t spent enough time on it and am not sure what I should stick with. I’m planning to use these in a site with 100 users online at a time. So two concerns are efficient AJAX and also client side load time. I am planning to go with the combination of JQuery and YUI. loading Yahoo UI from yahoo and the latter form google. However it seems to me that this is unnecessary and I might in the future regret it.
I wanted to get some opinions! I did look around and read other posts but most people seemed to have an emotional problem rather than technical.
Through the past few years I’ve been busy with server side programming and I
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394601/which-javascript-framework-jquery-vs-dojo-vs
Prototype VS jQuery – Strengths and Weaknesses?
this next one is a little bit dated but I remember when I was making a similar decision last year this article seemed fairly thorough and symmetrical in it’s treatment of pretty much all of the major js frameworks + browsers
http://blog.creonfx.com/javascript/mootools-vs-jquery-vs-prototype-vs-yui-vs-dojo-comparison-revised
I remember this article being decent, but keep in mind he is a rails guy so he’s obviously going to like prototype better:
http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2009/01/12/why-i-still-prefer-prototype-to-jquery.html
I went with jquery based mostly on performance. They use sizzle and seem to be very conscious of the size of their codebase.