It depends on what your goals are and what your programming background is, since each library is targeted at a different audience and does different things. If you just want to pick one to get started, I would recommend jQuery since it is light weight, easy to use, has lots of plug-ins, is actively supported, and it very popular. Spry, Ext, Yahoo, and script.aculo.us are also popular in the ColdFusion world. Of those I would be hesitant to use Yahoo, since the controls have a reputation for being slow and there is a good chance that the people that support that library will be axed when Microsoft completes the takeover.
If you program Web applications more than Web sites, you might want to take a look at Adobe Flex, since it is more powerful than any Ajax library. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:301625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
