2006 Best Open Source & Free Ajax-DHTML must have have Libraries for developers

Posted on January 6th, 2007 in General by daya

 

 

We present you 2006 best 14 Open source and free, must have Ajax DHTML must have libraries.

1.jQuery :

We rate this as No. 1. irrespective relatively new, its compact, easy to write codes, and you can make anything out this.

You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM JavaScript. By the time you are done it’s down to two or three lines and it couldn’t get any shorter unless it read your mind." - Dave Methvin jQuery is a JavaScript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing JavaScript code should be fun. jQuery achieves this goal by taking common, repetitive, tasks, stripping out all the unnecessary markup, and leaving them short, smart and understandable.

2) dojo –

Open source JavaScript toolkit that makes professional web development better, easier, and faster.

3) Yahoo UI Library –

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources.

4) script.aculo.us –

Provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style.

5)Mootools:

mootools is a very compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework. Its unique design makes it extremely crossbrowser, easy to use, and a snap to extend with your own code. It comes with a choice of more than fifteen scripts, plugins and add-on, including Effects, based on (moo.fx) Ajax, based on (moo.ajax), Dom Navigator, based on (moo.dom), Drag and Drop, Sortable lists, cookies Manager and many more. All the previous moo scripts have been made better, reorganized and extended to fully take advantage of the new OO architecture. One of the big differences is The Element Extension: mootools makes it possible for you to extend HTML elements with your own methods, to make your life easier and your coding style way cooler.

6) Moo.fx – moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework. It’s very easy to use, blazing fast, cross-browser, standards compliant, provides controls to modify any CSS property of any HTML element, including colors, with builtin checks that won’t let a user break the effect with multiple, crazy clicks. Optimized to make you write the lesser code possible, the new moo.fx is so modular you can create any kind of effect with it.

7) Rico –

An open source JavaScript library for creating rich Internet applications. Provides full Ajax support, drag and drop management, and a cinematic effects library.

8) Swat –

Developed by silverorange, Swat is an open source web application toolkit built with PHP.

9) ColorCombos –

Who would’ve thought a color library would end up mixed in with a bunch of JavaScript and PHP libraries? Well they do have a pretty sweet little color library for finding color combinations, all you do is select the color and they show you some nice combos that work with that color.

10) Mochikit –

MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript. MochiKit has HUNDREDS of tests. We build real applications with this thing. So even though development can move fast, we make sure to get tests written. This also makes platform compatibility issues much easier to detect and resolve than the "guess and check" style of quality assurance seen in some of the other libraries out there. It’s not broken.

11) Dynamic Drive CSS Library –

Here you’ll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.

12) PEAR –

A framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. PEAR provides the above mentioned PHP components in the form of so called “Packages”.

13) DHTML Goodies –

A good sized library of DHTML and AJAX scripts.

14) Cross Browser | Toys –

Huge JavaScript library.

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