You really are going to open a can of worms here, but I think it is what fits your needs.
Each of the frameworks have their own pros/cons to what you wish to achieve, and that is going to be the best question to ask yourself first. I have done some serious extJS, Dojo work and both have been very easy to learn and pickup. But they are not the frameworks I would use if you were not going to develop a heavy UI site/application. jQuery gains a lot of ground for its simpleness, as does mootools. Spry I here good things about, but have never used it myself. So the answer would be this, if you are after a very RIA experience and are not going to go the Flex way then my choice would be extJS 2.02 overall. If you are looking for minimal RIA as a way to enhance a website experience then jQuery/Spry/Mootools might be for you. So it would be best in my opinion to learn as many as you can. Fundamentally they all do the same thing in principle, and if you are good at JS then all are going to be easy to learn. Also if you haven't seen this website before, then I suggest you add this to your RSS feeds as it is a very valuable resource site. www.ajaxian.com Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -----Original Message----- From: Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 1:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: many JS libraries are out there, which one for CF8 is the question. Hi: I decided to use a JS library/framework to enhance the UI of my sites. I googled a lot and found out that there are many of them. I make a short list here:(thanks to google and wikipedia) Google Web Toolkit, AJILE, Backbase, CssQuery, Dojo, Toolkit, mootools, Ext, JQuery, MochiKit, Moo.fx, OpenLink AJAX Toolkit, Prototype, Qooxdoo, Rialto Toolkit, Rico, script.aculo.us, SmilScript, Spry framework, Yahoo! UI Library These where what I found. I believe there are some more out there that I couldn't find. My question is: Which one will help me as a beginner in using such libraries/frameworks plus has a future plus has good compatibility with Coldfusion. I know that CF8 has some EXT 1.0 integrations and YUI and I heard a lot about Jquery. But I really appreciate it if you write you opinions about each of the libraies I listed. What I really need is a simple, light and powerful one that gives me better client-side effects and form options(for example validation). Thanks Ali ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301624 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
