Comments on: Javascript framework usage among top websites

By: Menno Bieringa

Menno Bieringa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:02:20 +0000

Very usefull information. Thanks.
I’m checking what the best choice of framework would be for an open source, javascript powered web application. JQuery seems to make the chance that people can contribute to the code the biggest.

Thanks!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:45:53 +0000

I was curious why do you expect the number of YUI usage to be lower?

By: Haris

Haris — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:19:52 +0000

Dojo is one of the powerful and complete javascript frameworks, I was wondering y its not in list.Isn’t Dojo simple?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:06:14 +0000

I’m sure if you looked for protoculous instead of just prototype you’d come up with a lot more too.

By: Websfear

Websfear — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:27:41 +0000

Hey, where’s the DOJO?

By: Chuckchillout

Chuckchillout — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:26:16 +0000

So far I’m not to impressed with sproutcore. I browse the demos with IE7 and get so many JS errors I can’t even use the page (yes I have debugging turned on in IE).

I bet if this survey was run again in 6 month JQuery would be on top. Critical mass is definatly behide JQuery at this point.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:41:51 +0000

It would be interesting to see js library usage breakdown among top sites in various categories: news, social etc.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:27:04 +0000

Guyswithdogs, I believe you misunderstood.

He meant that developers should avoid using more then one library, as not everyone has 8MB connection. Most of the world is still on slow ADSL and dial-up.

He was not implying that we should stop visiting such sites.

By: GuyWithDogs

GuyWithDogs — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:59:42 +0000

You say

“Websites that couldn’t decide
Some of the websites didn’t just use one framework, but several. This will force all visitors to download more than needed and should be avoided.”

What should be avoided? The websites? Why on earth would you say that?

I tend to evaluate by _what_ the website enables me to do. I use more than one toolkit and library in my programming job – I hope you wouldn’t avoid my program because of that.

If the toolkits would clash and cause problems on the website, then sure, avoid it, because it doesn’t work right. But just because it uses multiple toolkits? Huh?

By: JasonG

JasonG — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:02:03 +0000

It’s rather disapointing that Scriptaculous and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) were not included. Both of these are relatively popular AFAIK.