JQuery, Prototype, Mootools?
Okay, so there are a seemingly endless supply of javascript frameworks for you to develop with, so which one is right for you?
Maybe a better way to go about this subject is how I arrived at my chosen framework. I used to be all about Mootools by default, maybe it was the name, maybe the fact I like beef, maybe that I really dug their web site. I eventually (after sporadically testing different frameworks) arrived at JQuery as my default. So what made me choose JQuery over the countless others? Plain and simple it was the community support. Having a great framework or script is all well and good, but when you have a great user base out there that shares their innovations and discoveries then it makes it all the better. It probably didn’t hurt that in my employment we write in .NET technology and in that technology Microsoft decided that it would embrace JQuery as it’s default framework for Javascript going forward, so for me that’s a Win/Win. I program in .NET at work but do a lot of PHP stuff in my offtime, so a framework that appeals to both androgynously really perked up my senses.
So what is your preferred framework, and why?
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