Which AJAX toolkit do you use?
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Which AJAX toolkit do you use?
Spill the AJAX, err... beans, guys & girls. And yes, I am aware that not all of these are strictly AJAX toolkits, but are using existing implementations for a DHTML framework.
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Because there are so many AJAX-frameworks out there (for a sample see: http://ajaxpatterns.org/PHP_Ajax_Frameworks) that I had to be selective. Plus, I hadn't heard of it until today.Buddha443556 wrote:What no jQuery!?
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It's not a bad list -- Just would've been better with jQuery.patrikG wrote:Because there are so many AJAX-frameworks out there (for a sample see: http://ajaxpatterns.org/PHP_Ajax_Frameworks) that I had to be selective. Plus, I hadn't heard of it until today.
Only two I haven't tried are ASK and XOAD. I would recommend jQuery or Prototype (and it's add-ons script.aculo.us or moo.fx) if your looking for a lite weight library. Dojo does just about everything.
Only just started using JSON.
Couple more to note: Rico and RAILTO.
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One more vote for jquery to be on the list 
http://15daysofjquery.com
(don't listen to me. Haven't used any of them yet, only read what others have said)
http://15daysofjquery.com
(don't listen to me. Haven't used any of them yet, only read what others have said)
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I use either http://www.litfuel.net/mybic/ or http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/ in my ajax dealings, sajax was when i was just getting into ajax stuff and mybic is my current toolkit of choice.
I'm still looking for THE perfect toolkit, that will take care of timeouts and loading widgets on the client side, secure transactions on the server side, and most importantly, built-in json encoding/decoding (which mybic does have). I'd prefer oop on the serverside as well, as all i would have to do is extend any page controllers already in place to provide the needed methods to return the ajax request and not the full page.
I'm still looking for THE perfect toolkit, that will take care of timeouts and loading widgets on the client side, secure transactions on the server side, and most importantly, built-in json encoding/decoding (which mybic does have). I'd prefer oop on the serverside as well, as all i would have to do is extend any page controllers already in place to provide the needed methods to return the ajax request and not the full page.
I've been playing around with a number of AJAX-toolkits, mostly xoad, scriptaculous (put in the dots if you want), dojo, yui and some others.
Dojo, scriptaculous and yui were very nice, but a bit like Flash: eye-candy I don't require at this time. Dojo had a somewhat bloated feel to it (client-side loading times are very long), yui was nice, but broke tinyMCE, scriptaculous did the same - to my mind, these three are DHTML-toolkits with AJAX-components, but most certainly not "AJAX-toolkits".
Enter xoad and xajax (rather "pure" AJAX toolkits): xoad seemed very promising, liked the fact that they emphasised security but I found the documentation a wee bit lacking, especially since you have to do a fair bit of Javascripting yourself. I got bored with it (or rather researching bits and bobs about the API to do what I wanted to do) and tried out xajax - which is what I'm curently, and happily using. Very simple and straigforwards API, easy to implement - it's my current favourite.
Dojo, scriptaculous and yui were very nice, but a bit like Flash: eye-candy I don't require at this time. Dojo had a somewhat bloated feel to it (client-side loading times are very long), yui was nice, but broke tinyMCE, scriptaculous did the same - to my mind, these three are DHTML-toolkits with AJAX-components, but most certainly not "AJAX-toolkits".
Enter xoad and xajax (rather "pure" AJAX toolkits): xoad seemed very promising, liked the fact that they emphasised security but I found the documentation a wee bit lacking, especially since you have to do a fair bit of Javascripting yourself. I got bored with it (or rather researching bits and bobs about the API to do what I wanted to do) and tried out xajax - which is what I'm curently, and happily using. Very simple and straigforwards API, easy to implement - it's my current favourite.