COmpare DOJO, MOCHI KIT, MOO Tools,Yahoo! UI,Prototype and JQuery

JQuery is the BEST

 

 

Dojo   

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- Built in functionality / Power / ease of use --- many compatibility issues, ease of use -- not good

- add ons / widgets       -- simple -- no widgets

- Size of footprint          ---23KB

- Documentation / Community --- community supported by many companies like IBM, AOL, Sun

Documentation-- not good

 

 

 

Mochikit

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- Built in functionality / Power / ease of use -- compatibility good, ease of use    -- good

- add ons / widgets       -- not so many , no widgets

- Size of footprint          ---111KB

- Documentation / Community   -- Documentation good, still a little community

 

 

 

 

 

MooTools

 

- Built in functionality / Power / ease of use -- good

- add ons / widgets       -- good

- Size of footprint          ---43KB

- Documentation / Community -- had some good community

Documentation -- good

 

 

Yahoo! UI

 

- Built in functionality / Power / ease of use -- ease of use -- some restrictions to use its functions and more time need to learn the functions

- add ons / widgets       -- ok

- Documentation / Community   --

Community       good

Documentation--Very good docs

 

Some bugs have to be fixed some compatibility issues

 

Prototype

 

- Built in functionality / Power / ease of use

- add ons / widgets       -- ok

- Size of footprint          ---122KB

- Documentation / Community  

Had some community

Documentation--Very good docs

ease of use -- some restrictions to use its functions and more time need to learn the functions

Compatibility fine

Design is not good

 

Prototype does not provide any widgets or controls

 

 

JQuery

 

- Built in functionality / Power / ease of use

- add ons / widgets       -- good widgets from jquery UI

- Size of footprint          ---26.5 KB

- Documentation / Community  

had lot of communities behind

Documentation--Very good docs

Ease of use -- very good, performance is better that all the other tools

Ease to read and simplified code

Compatibility good except Konqueror

 

 

 

 

 

 

jQuery was the first toolkit to support chaining and that it executes it nicely.

 

Commnets over comparition

http://programming.reddit.com/info/61xbz/comments

 

 

 

http://mootools.net/slickspeed/

Selectors                                              Prototype 1.6  MooTools 1.2 beta1     JQuery 1.21

IE 6.0 final time (less is better)              2098                1477                1239 

mozilla 1.5 final time (less is better)                    299                  346                  935

 

From the above results we can see that for IE jquery is better

For prototype some tags are not working

 

http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/comp/

This url checks  JQuery,Dojo,Yahoo! UI,Prototype,Mochikit

From the above url we can see that Jquery supports  all the features