Excellent List of famous JavaScript frameworks,

Creating a lot of HTML using DOM methods can be a real pain. This is what students of the Juku training course that I held two weeks ago found out quite quickly and complained about the verbosity of it all. I listened to their concerns and came up with a framework for JavaScript applications called
ViewsHandler.
One of …

Jeremy Keith has been doing a great job blogging An Event Apart, and his writeup of The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer caught my eye.
Eric took a look at the most popular CSS frameworks (960, Blueprint, Content With Style, That Standards Guy, YAML, YUI, Elements, Tripoli, WYMStyle) and …

I am a fan of Ruby, and when I saw Red the framework that allows you to write Ruby and get JavaScript out the other end I was excited. It allows you to write this:
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RUBY:

class MyClass
   @@my_var = 500
   
   def initialize(arg)
     @arg = arg
   end
   def my_method
     alert(@arg)…

Components is a high-level javascript framework. It gives you everything you need to write class-driven, unobtrusive, asynchronous applications in less code than ever before.

Johannes Link is an Agile fellow who wasn’t 100% happy with the existing JavaScript unit test frameworks, and he explained why. He gives an example:
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JAVASCRIPT:

  testDoubleSpeaker: function() { with(this) {

    var actualMsg = null;

    var mockSay = function(msg) {

      actualMsg = msg;

    };

    Speaker.say = mockSay;

    DoubleSpeaker.say(’oops’);

    assertEqual(’oopsoops’, actualMsg);

  …

Bizroof uses prototype and scriptaculous as javascript framework in order to provide desktop-like look and feel. But, the framework itself is big in size and therefore takes quite a while to load. Although it only happens once to download the files, it still annoys the first-time visitors…. …

There a number of cool JavaScript frameworks and sometimes you get into situation when you want to use some nice features from them in your Joomla! system. The major JS frameworks that we will talk about are: jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo and Yahoo UI.

These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems like everyone is using some kind of framework to build their sites.

GreasePocket is an experimental proof-of-concept framework, similar to Firefox’s Greasemonkey, which lets people customize the way web pages display using JavaScript.

Andi Gutmans of Zend has posted on a proposal for AMF support in the Zend Framework, which is being lead by the AMFPHP project leader, Wade Arnold.

This ZF component will allow for client-side applications built with Flex and Adobe AIR to communicate easily and efficiently with PHP on the server-side.
We are excited about this proposal as it is consistent …

In a world where jQuery, Prototype, Mootools rule javascript development is there a place for pure hand made js code? Yes. Read all about why it is still cool to write your own JavaScript.

In my other life as a desktop application developer (which due to a mix of Fluid, AIR, Prism, canvas, SVG, and Flash is threatening to converge on my Ajax life) I’ve long been a fan of data-binding frameworks that make it easy to have a form automatically synchronize with backing data structures, saving you from the tedium of a dozen …

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is the best software for making sites as web designing, for� the web development. You can customized all the CSS, HTML, PHP, Javascript and all various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages, ColdFusion, many more through on this webmaster software.

Carousel.us is a Javascript 3D carousel, using the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js frameworks.

If there’s a single experience that bonds all Web developers, it is the incomprehensible joy of wasting hours of our lives supporting IE6. The quasi-palindromic Dionysios Synodinos (alright, it’s pretty far from reversible, but there’s got to be a good anagram in there) over at InfoQ has put together a fun piece discussing wither IE6. From the article:

Since attaining …

ExtJS è un framework in javascript client-side per la realizzazione di applicazioni web.Il cuore di questa libreria è l’ oggetto Element con il quale potremo referenziare un elemento sulla nostra pagina …

Hello people i have an announcement to make. The next series of posts on this blog we will be creating a javascript framework on one step at at time. We will call this framework “Smallbug” ..It will be a framework based on the module concept, this allows you to quickly develop the module your project needs.

You know it: Forms are one of the most important part of a website. But forms also require a lot of work. Happilly, the excellent Javascript framework Mootools is here to help: Here’s 10 scripts to enhance your forms, both visually and functionally.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually had a decent component model? Instead of making JavaScript frameworks have to mess around and try to create one on top of the crud they have to deal with?
This is what XBL 2.0 is all about. I talked about XBL in one of my Web Archeology posts, and how Jonas Sicking …

With my Google hat on, I got to interview Michael Marcus and Rui Ma, two recent graduates from a masters program at NYU. They joined me to discuss Gears on Rails, their open source framework that makes it easier than ever to take a Rails code-base offline.
They take the approach of giving you a high level Ruby-ish way …

Last week, I read an article in which the author created a typewriter effect using the jQuery javascript framework. I was impressed with the idea and execution of the code so I decided to port the effect to MooTools.

The application is made with PHP and javascript, and we use a MySQL database. Amazon’s S3 is used for storage of files upload by users. Prototype and script.aculo.us provides us with easy-to-use and sexy user interface. We use Zend Framework APIs to support web services (such as Google, Flickr, Yahoo and Amazon).

The IE8 team has created a blitz on its blog with a slew of posts on security. There is a ton of great stuff here, and is well worth going into detail on each post:
IE8 and Trustworthy Browsing
At first they set the scene:

This blog post frames our approach in IE8 for delivering trustworthy browsing. The topic is complicated enough …

Michal Zalewski, of Google, has released ratproxy, a tool to test your Web application against attacks such as XSS and XSRF:

Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized specifically for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic …

Dojo is a framework that you can bend for your needs. You have very fine grained control on what you want in your base dojo.js, how other components are loaded, and a final custom JavaScript file.
Brad Neuberg showed a project, SearchTools, that added local search via Gears, and had a custom Dojo that wasn’t Dojo in a very small package.
Alex …

Here’s a cross-section of helpful links for anyone choosing a Javascript framework.

Ignacio Coloma has announced Loom 1.0 RC 1. Loom is an annotation-based java web framework that includes a ton of new features in this release. After some selective process, these are the bits that could be of most interest for Ajax developers:

Generates HTML 5 markup (with data-* fields), including CSS classes
with the property type.

Based on prototype

An ever-growing list …

Michael Carter of Orbited has written about how he now likes to call Comet sockets in the browser, and has an implementation available that looks like this:
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JAVASCRIPT:

var conn = new TCPSocket(hostname, port)

conn.onopen = function() { alert(’connection opened!’) }

conn.onread = function(data) { alert(’RECEIVE: ‘ + data) }

conn.onclose = function(data) { alert(’connection closed!’) }

conn.send(’Hello World’);

The above code code …

There is a thread going on secure cross domain requests. Microsoft came out with a paper saying that the W3C standard isn’t secure, and pushing the Microsoft XDR spec:

A few proposals and implementations exist like XDomainRequest in IE8, JSONRequest and the W3C’s Web Applications Working Group’s Cross Site XMLHttpRequest (CS-XHR) draft specification, which combines an Access control framework …

Code to extend one of the basic helpers that CodeIgniter, a PHP framework, includes. With this script you can easily add JavaScript files at your views.

SproutCore is but one complete, pure JavaScript framework for building web-based applications. In developing its presentation app called Slides, 280 North wanted to make creating web apps as easy as creating desktop apps in Cocoa. So, the company did the logical thing: ported Cocoa to JavaScript.

LightWindow is a JavaScript framework based on Prototype and Scriptaculous. If you aren’t familiar with these two amazing resources, it is definitely worth your time to become familiar with them. They are two of the most useful resources available for Web 2.0 developing.

The all anticipated JUNE JS Framework has now been released! It was well worth the wait, I wont say much about it and let you go check it out for yourselves. So you know, JUNE is flexible, AJAX compatible, simple and yet powerful!

Last week’s news of Apple’s adoption of the SproutCore Javascript framework was met with a shrug of the shoulders by some web developers. Indeed, SproutCore itself is just the packaging together of existing web technologies into a developer-friendly package. No brand new capabilites were introduce…

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google’s Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome. And it does not look good.

While Adobe is working with the iPhone SDK to bring Flash to the iPhone, Apple is working with SproutCore, an open source JavaScript framework the company reportedly used to build MobileMe. Some have even called SproutCore a “Flash Killer,” which may explain Apple’s reluctance to include the technology on the iPhone.

Client-side Web developers work mainly in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, displaying and manipulating data within a Web browser, while retrieving and storing that data on the server. A new exciting entry on this front is SproutCore, a new JavaScript framework that brings a full model-view-controller (MVC) approach to client-side programming. Learn how!

I shouldn’t say finally. The writing has been on the wall forever but most people couldn’t figure out what the writing said. It turns out it has a name, SproutCore, an open source Javascript framework that has been getting some buzz because it may be powering the Mobile Me suite of applications from Apple soon.

AppleInsider said that Apple detailed their use of a JavaScript framework named SproutCore at WWDC last week.

Apple formally adopted a new web design framework at the end of last week’s WWDC conference, accounts say. Although the session was guarded with high security and a non-disclosure agreement, information has reportedly emerged on Apple’s announced development for SproutCore, an existing, open-source JavaScript framework based on Cocoa.

AppleInsider reports that Apple detailed their use of a JavaScript framework called SproutCore at WWDC last week.

AppleInsider is running an article about Apple’s new SproutCore Web application development framework, utilizing Javascript and some nifty HTML 5 to offer a ‘Cocoa-inspired’ way to create powerful Web applications. Apple built on the OSS SproutIt framework developed for an online e-mail manager called ‘Mailroom.’

SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. And it’s the basis of the Apple’s MobileMe apps.

It may be going a little far to hype up Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore.
The post goes into a lot of history, including going back to NeXT days, to try to setup a case to match the title. It could all be a lot simpler though. They get to the meat:

The SproutCore JavaScript …

SproutCore is a JavaScript framework that runs entirely in the browser. It’s designed to be run against any server back-end setup. At Jolley’s company, SproutIt, they use Rails as the backend; they facilitate the connection through a custom Rails plug-in that’s included with the SproutCore framework. Apple runs SproutCore runs against WebObjects.

Pingdom, the service that has gotten popular telling us when Twitter is down, has just released stats on which Javascript frameworks are the most common.

The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit.

They talk about …

And now for something a little bit different on a Friday. Greg Brown from VMWare pointed us to the fruition of nearly a year’s worth of R&D: Pivot, a new GUI toolkit for Java.

While traditionally Java Applets and the Web have mixed together about as well as concrete and peanut butter, the upcoming …

Many people wrote in to tell us about the recent MooTools 1.2 release and updated MooTools website. Coming nearly a year to the day after their last production release (1.11), Moo differentiates itself from other popular frameworks by cramming Prototype-inspired helpers and smooth effects into a small download. Weighing in at 90KB …

Here is a great post from Royal Pingdom. This post answer for the question “Which Javascript frameworks are the most common?”. Ok, read it :)To answer that question, we here at Pingdom have examined a set of almost 200 popular websites to see if they use a Javascript framework, and in that case which framework they have chosen.