Comparison of JavaScript frameworks Informatics Engineering 464 pasar.pts-ptn.net

There are many JavaScript frameworks available. The intention of this comparison is to show some examples of notable JavaScript frameworks.

Comparison of JavaScript frameworks

	AccDC	Ample SDK	CupQ	DHTMLX	Dojo	Echo3	Enyo	Ext JS	Google Web Toolkit	jQuery	midori	MochiKit	MooTools	Prototype & script. aculo.us^[1]	Pyjamas	qooxdoo	Rialto Toolkit	Rico	SmartClient & SmartGWT	Wakanda	YUI	ZK
Version compared	2.0.2 December 2012	0.9.3 1 Jul 2010	0.2 June 2012	3.5 2 Aug 2012	1.8.0 15 Aug 2012	3.0.rc1 24 Mar 2011	2.0.1 30 August 2012	4.2b 22 Jan 2013	2.4 September 2011	1.9.1 4 Feb 2013	2010.05 10 May 2010	1.4.2 17 Nov 2008	1.4.5 26 February 2012	Prototype: 1.7.1 8 Aug 2012 script.aculo.us: 1.9.0 23 Dec 2010	0.5 Mar 2009	2.1 14 Nov 2012	1.1.5 25 Feb 2011	2.0 03 May 2009	SmartClient: 8.3 Nov 2012 SmartGWT: 3.1 Nov 2012	3 19 Dec 2012	3.4 18 Aug 2011	6.5.1.1 13 Dec 2012 / September 12, 2012;
Size		Variable. Core size: 40 kB (minified & gzipped)	20 kB (minified)	Variable	Variable. Base size: 28 kB (minified & gzipped), 65 kB (minified), 123 kB (uncompressed)^[2]		<25 kB (core gzipped)	84–502 kB	Variable	32 KiB (minified & gzipped), 93 KiB (minified), 252 KiB (uncompressed)	9 kB (minified & gzipped), 50 kB (uncompressed)	32–200 kB	Variable; 7.3–65 KiB (YUI Compressor),^[3] 101 KiB (uncompressed)^[4]	46–278 kB	Variable	Variable, starting at 6 kB (gzipped)	520 kB		100–500 kb (gzipped).	Variable	Variable; library core is 31 kB	Variable
License	MIT License	MIT & GPL	MIT	GPL & Commercial	BSD & AFL	MPL, LGPL or GPL	Apache 2 [13]	GPL and Commercial	Apache	MIT	MIT	MIT & AFL	MIT	MIT	Apache 2 & GPL	LGPL & EPL	Apache	Apache	LGPL & Commercial	GPL & Commercial	BSD	LGPL & GPL & ZOL
Source language	JavaScript	?	JavaScript	JavaScript	JavaScript + HTML	JavaScript and/or Java	JavaScript	JavaScript	Java	JavaScript	?	?	JavaScript	JavaScript	Python	JavaScript	?	?	Server: Java Client: Java (Smart GWT) or Javascript (SmartClient) or XML (both)	Javascript + HTML + CSS	Javascript + HTML + CSS	XML + Java (Javascript Optional)
Features
	AccDC	Ample SDK	CupQ	DHTMLX	Dojo	Echo3	Enyo	Ext JS	Google Web Toolkit	jQuery	midori	MochiKit	MooTools	Prototype & script. aculo.us^[1]	Pyjamas	qooxdoo	Rialto Toolkit	Rico	SmartClient and SmartGWT	Wakanda	YUI	ZK
Feature detection^[5]	Yes	No^[6]	Yes^[7]	No	Yes^[8]	No		No	No^[9]^[10]	Yes^[11]	No^[12]	No^[13]	Yes^[14]	No^[15]		Yes	No^[16]	No	Partial ^[17]	Partial	Yes	No^[18]
DOM wrapped^[19]	Yes	Yes^[20]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No^[21]	No^[22]^[23]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
XMLHttpRequest data retrieval	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes^[24]		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[25]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes^[26]	Yes	Yes	Yes
JSON data retrieval	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes^[27]		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[28]	Yes	Yes^[29]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Server push data retrieval	Yes				Yes^[30]			Yes^[31]	Yes^[32]	Yes^[33]									Yes^[34]		Via Plugin	Yes^[35]
Other data retrieval	Yes: XML, HTML	Yes: XML		Yes: XML, CSV, HTML	Yes: XML, HTML, CSV, ATOM^[36]			Yes: XML	Yes: RPC, RequestFactory	Yes: XML, HTML			Yes: XML, HTML						Yes: XML, WSDL, RSS, and Java-based SQL, Hibernate, POJO adapters	Yes: JSON-RPC, Wakanda REST	Yes
Drag and drop	Yes: With keyboard accessibility	Yes	No	Yes	Yes^[37]	Yes		Yes	With plugin^[38]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[39]	Yes	Depends	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Simple visual effects	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes^[40]		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[41]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Animation / advanced visual effects		Yes	No	No	Yes^[42]	Yes	Yes^[43]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[44]	Yes^[45]	Yes		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Event handling	Yes	Yes^[46]	Yes	Yes	Yes^[47]		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[48]	Yes	Yes^[49]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Back button support / history management		Yes	No	No	Yes^[50]			Yes^[51]	Yes	With plugins^[52]	Yes		With plugin^[53]	Yes	Yes^[54]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Input form widgets & validation		Yes	No	Yes^[55]	Yes^[56]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, Validation requires plugin^[57]	With plugins^[58]	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes^[54]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	AccDC	Ample SDK	CupQ	DHTMLX	Dojo	Echo3	Enyo	ExtJS	Google Web Toolkit	jQuery	midori	MochiKit	MooTools	Prototype & script. aculo.us^[1]	Pyjamas	qooxdoo	Rialto Toolkit	Rico	SmartClient and SmartGWT	Wakanda	YUI	ZK
Grid		Yes^[59]	No	Yes^[60]	Yes^[61]	Yes		Yes	Yes	With plugins^[62]	No		With plugin^[63]		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[64]	Yes	Yes^[65]	Yes^[66]	Yes
Hierarchical Tree	Yes	Yes^[67]	Yes	Yes^[68]	Yes^[69]		Yes^[70]	Yes^[71]	Yes	With plugins^[72]	No		With plugins^[73]		Yes^[74]	Yes^[75]	Yes		Yes	Yes (Auto Form)^[76]	Yes^[77]	Yes
Rich text editor		Yes^[78]	No	Yes^[79]	Yes^[80]	Yes^[81]		Yes^[82]	Yes	With plugins^[83]	No		Yes^[84]		Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes^[85]	Yes	Yes
Autocompletion tools			No	Yes^[86]	Yes^[87]			Yes	Yes	With plugins^[88]	Yes		With plugin^[89]	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[90]	Yes	Yes
HTML generation tools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[91]			Yes	Yes	Yes	No		Yes^[92]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Widgets themeable / skinnable	Yes	Yes		Yes^[93]	Yes^[94]		Yes	Yes^[95]	Yes^[96]	Yes^[97]			Yes		Yes	Yes^[98]			Yes	Yes^[99]	Yes^[100]	Yes
GUI resizable panels and modal dialogs	Yes	Yes		Yes^[101]	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	With plugins			Yes^[102]			Yes			Yes	Yes^[103]	Yes	Yes^[104]
GUI page layout	Yes	Yes		Yes^[105]	Yes			Yes	Yes	With plugin^[106]			Yes^[102]			Yes			Yes	Yes^[107]	Yes	Yes^[108]
Canvas support		Yes		Yes	Yes^[109]		Yes	Yes	Yes	With plugin^[110]			Yes^[111]		Yes	Yes			Yes	Yes^[112]	Yes	Yes^[113]
Mobile/tablet support (touch events)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[114]	Yes^[115]	No	Yes	Yes	With plugin^[116]	With plugin^[117]			With plugin^[118]			Yes			Yes	Yes^[119]^[120]	Yes	Yes^[121]
Accessibility / graceful degradation^[122]	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes^[123]		Yes	Partial^[124]	Yes^[125]	Yes			Yes			No^[126]			Degradation: No Accessibility: Yes		Yes^[127]	Yes
ARIA compliant	Yes				Yes^[123]			No		Yes^[128]						No			Yes		Yes	Yes
Developer tools, Visual design	Yes	No	No	Yes^[129]	Yes^[130]	In development^[131]	in progress^[132]	Yes^[133]	Yes	Yes^[134]^[135]			Yes^[136]^[137]		No	Yes^[138]			Yes	Yes^[139]	Yes^[140]	Yes
Offline storage^[141]			No	Yes^[142]	No^[143]		Yes	Via Adobe Air	Via Google Gears^[144]	With plugin^[145]	No				Via Pyjamas-Desktop^[146]	Yes	No		Yes	planned	Via plugin^[147]	Yes
Cross-browser 2d Vector Graphics^[148]		Yes^[149]			Yes^[150]			Yes		With plugin^[151]			Yes^[152]		Yes				Yes	Yes (via Raphael)	Yes	Yes^[153]
Charting & Dashboard^[154]		Yes^[155]		Yes^[156]	Yes^[157]			Yes^[158]		With plugin^[159]^[160]									Yes	Yes^[161]	Yes^[162]	Yes^[163]
RTL Support in UI Components					Yes			No		Depends on the plugin used
	AccDC	Ample SDK	CupQ	DHTMLX	Dojo	Echo3	Enyo	Ext JS	Google Web Toolkit	jQuery	midori	MochiKit	MooTools	Prototype & script. aculo.us^[1]	Pyjamas	qooxdoo	Rialto Toolkit	Rico	SmartClient and SmartGWT	Wakanda	YUI	ZK
Browser Support
Internet Explorer	6+	6+	6+	6+	6+	6+	8+^[164]	6+	6+	6+^[165]	6+	6	6+	6+	6+	6+	6+	5.5+	6+	9+	6+	6+
Mozilla Firefox	2+	1+	2+	1+	3+^[166]	1.5+	>4^[164]	1.5+	1+	2+^[165]	1.5+	1.0.7, 1.5b2	2+	1.5+	1+	2+	1.5+	1+	1+	4+	3+^[167]	2.0+
Safari	3+	3+	3+	2.0+	4^[166]	3+	>5^[164]	3+	3+	3+^[165]	2+	2.0.2	3+	2.0.4+	2+	3+		2.0.3^[168]	3+	5+	4.0	3+
Opera	9+	9.6+	9+	9+	10.50+^[166]	9+	^[164]	9+	9+	9+^[165]	9+	8.5	9+	9.25+	9+	9+	9+		9+		10.0+	9+
Chrome	1+	1+	1+	1+	3^[166]	1+	>10^[164]	3+^[169]	1+	1+^[165]			1+	1+ (starting with 1.6.1RC3)		2+			1+	11+		2+

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d script.aculo.us is an add-on to Prototype.
^ Dojo Base
^ [1]
^ [2]
^ Feature detection is preferred by many to browser sniffing to support future browsers: Browser Detecting (and what to do Instead), Feature Detection: State of the Art Browser Scripting, Browser Feature Detection
^ Ample SDK uses Browser Sniffing
^ [CupQ uses Browser Sniffing]
^ Documentation dojo/has
^ GWT implementations for every browser
^ Google Docs (built on GWT) stops working on a Firefox rebranding because of not doing proper Feature Detection
^ jQuery 1.3
^ http://www.midorijs.com/midori.js midori.js
^ http://www.mochikit.com/MochiKit/Style.js MochiKit/Style.js
^ http://mootools.net/blog/2010/10/11/mootools-core-1-3-stable-and-mootools-more-1-3rc/
^ Feature detection all the way
^ https://svn.improve.fr/rialto/Rialto-coreV1/rialtoEngine/javascript/rialto.js
^ Author disagrees that feature detection alone is sufficient
^ http://zssdemo.zkoss.org/zkau/web/js/zk/zk.js.dsp zk.js
^ kangax (5 April 2010). "What’s wrong with extending the DOM". http://perfectionkills.com/whats-wrong-with-extending-the-dom/. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
^ http://www.amplesdk.com/about/technologies/javascript/
^ MooTools Docs - Element/Element
^ Prototype JavaScript framework: Element
^ Prototype 2.0 will not extend the DOM - Ajaxian
^ AJAX and Dojo
^ MooTools Request
^ Inner HTML demo
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojo/data
^ MooTools Request.JSON
^ Pyjamas JSON-RPC Example
^ http://cometd.org/documentation/cometd-javascript
^ https://github.com/kembuco/extjs-cometd/
^ http://code.google.com/p/rocket-gwt/wiki/Comet
^ http://cometd.org/documentation/cometd-javascript
^ Real-time Messaging Module
^ http://books.zkoss.org/wiki/ZK_Developer%27s_Reference/Server_Push
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojox/data
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojo/dnd
^ http://code.google.com/p/gwt-dnd/
^ MooTools Drag.Move
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojo/fx/
^ MooTools Fx.Tween (Simple Transitions)
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojox/fx/
^ http://enyojs.com/api/#enyo.Animator
^ Mochikit.Visual
^ MooTools Fx.Morph (Advanced Transitions)
^ http://www.amplesdk.com/about/technologies/javascript/
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/quickstart/events
^ http://mootools.net/docs/core/Types/Event MooTools Events
^ Pyjamas demo of onclick event handling
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojo/back
^ http://www.sencha.com/products/js/roadmap.php Since v2.2
^ Address, History, jquery History, History/Remote, jQuery BBQ
^ MooTools-History
^ ^a ^b Pyjamas Kitchen Sink demo
^ dhtmlxForm
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dijit/form
^ http://techblog.maydu.eu/?p=7
^ http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins
^ Data Views
^ dhtmlxGrid
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojox/grid
^ jqGrid, Ingrid, Flexigrid, SlickGrid, ParamQuery Grid
^ JxLib Library or phatfusion sortable table plugin or DrasticGrid
^ Live grid
^ Wakanda DataGrid
^ YUI DataTable
^ Data Views
^ dhtmlxTree
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dijit/Tree
^ Tree demo
^ Tree demos
^ treeview, file_tree_viewer
^ MooTree 2 or JxLib Library or MooTools PowerTools!
^ http://pyjs.org/examples/kitchensink/output/KitchenSink.html#Trees Tree
^ http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/demobrowser/ Demo browser
^ Wakanda Auto Form
^ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/treeview/ YUI TreeView
^ [3]
^ dhtmlxEditor
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dijit/Editor
^ Echo 3 new features
^ problems with the HTMLEditor creating XHTML vs the HTML it does now
^ markitup, jwysiwyg, htmlbox, WYMeditor
^ MooEditable
^ Wakanda WYSIWYG Editor
^ dhtmlxCombo
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dijit/form/ComboBox
^ Autocomplete, Dylans Autocomplete, Yet Another Autocomplete, jQuery plugin for Autocomplete, Jquery Autocomplete, jquery.suggest, Interface Autocompleter
^ Digitarald's Autocompleter Plugin
^ Wakanda Combo Box
^ As of Dojo 1.3, the NodeList.addContent() api can be used to create content for example: dojo.query(".note").addContent("h4 NOTE: h4", "before");
^ MooTools Elements
^ SkinBuilder
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dijit-themes
^ Community-driven skins, Theme Builder
^ Skinning GWT controls with style sheets
^ ThemeRoller
^ http://manual.qooxdoo.org/current/pages/gui_toolkit.html#themes
^ Wakanda Widget Overview (skins / styles)
^ Skinning YUI
^ dhtmlxWindows
^ ^a ^b Using MochaUI Library or JxLib
^ Wakanda Dialogs
^ http://www.zkoss.org/smalltalks/zkstudio_vedemo/
^ dhtmlxLayout
^ [4]
^ Wakanda Container / Layout
^ http://www.zkoss.org/smalltalks/zkstudio_vedemo/
^ dojo.gfx
^ jQuery Canvas plugin
^ MochaUI Library
^ Wakanda Canvas
^ [5]
^ DHTMLX Touch
^ dojox.mobile & dojox.mobile.app
^ [6]
^ jQTouch, jQuery Mobile Project
^ MooTools Mobile (unofficial)
^ Wakanda Navigation View
^ Wakanda Split View
^ http://www.zkoss.org/whyzk/Features
^ All JavaScript frameworks can be written in an accessible way with graceful degradation, frameworks seen here which imply out-of-the-box accessibility have made a special effort to document best practices for their particular framework.
^ ^a ^b http://docs.dojocampus.org/quickstart/writingWidgets/a11y
^ Section 508 accessibility improvements – v3.0 roadmap
^ Built-in Accessibility in GWT 1.5 Applications
^ Qooxdoo's "Extreme JavaScript" paradigm
^ Yahoo! UI Graded Browser Support
^ jQuery UI has ARIA support
^ Visual Designer for DHTMLX
^ Wavemaker, Aptana Studio
^ EchoStudio 3
^ [7]
^ [8], Theme Builder, Custom build tool
^ Netbeans has jQuery support
^ jQuery API
^ MooTools-core Documentation
^ MooTools-more Document
^ Custom build, JS Linker, API generation, Unit test framework, etc.
^ Wakanda Studio
^ CSS Grid Builder, YUI Test Utility, Profiler, Logger Control
^ JavaScript frameworks currently only have the ability to support offline storage by taking advantage of pre-installed browser extensions such as Google Gears. If a user does not have one of these supported extensions installed in their browser already then offline support will be unavailable to the framework. JavaScript framework developers interested in implementing Gears may want to start with the Gears Getting Started Guide.
^ Tutorial - How to Add Offline Support
^ o.DojoToolkit.Org/offline says "Dojo Offline is no longer supported after Dojo 1.3"
^ Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit
^ jQuery HTML5 Storage plugin
^ Pyjamas Desktop
^ http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/show/storage-lite
^ Some JavaScript libraries provide 2d graphics primitives that can be used for cross-browser vector graphics. These libraries rely on underlying technologies in the browser or plugins such as Canvas, SVG, VML, Flash, and Silverlight to do the actual rendering, but help isolate application and widget code from the rendering engine api differences
^ [9]
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojox/gfx
^ http://keith-wood.name/svg.html jQuery SVG plugin
^ MooTools ART
^ http://books.zkoss.org/wiki/Small_Talks/2010/June/How_To_Use_Canvas4Z
^ Some JavaScript libraries include widgets for Charts, Gauges, and other data visualizations.
^ [10]
^ dhtmlxChart
^ http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojox/charting
^ http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/dev/docs/?class=Ext.chart.Chart Chart API
^ jQuery Flot Plugin
^ jQuery Visualize Plugin
^ Wakanda Chart
^ [11]
^ [12]
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e http://enyojs.com/docs/platforms
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e http://docs.jquery.com/Browser_Compatibility
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d http://docs.dojocampus.org/releasenotes/1.4
^ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/
^ http://openrico.org/resources
^ http://www.sencha.com/products/js/

ECMAScript

Dialects

Engines
(comparison)

Carakan
Futhark
InScript
JavaScriptCore
- SquirrelFish
JScript
KJS
Linear B
Narcissus
QtScript
Rhino
YAJI
SpiderMonkey
- TraceMonkey
- JägerMonkey
Tamarin
V8
Chakra
Jurassic
JavaScript .NET
Jint

Frameworks,
libraries

JavaScript
(comparison)

Client-side (list, Ajax frameworks)	Ample SDK CougarXML Dojo Echo Ext JS Google Web Toolkit jQuery Lively Kernel midori MochiKit MooTools Prototype Pyjamas qooxdoo Rialto Rico script.aculo.us SmartClient SproutCore Spry YUI Library

Server-side (comparison)	AppJet Jaxer Node.js

Libraries (list)	Backbone SWFObject SWFAddress Underscore

ActionScript

PureMVC

Multiple
implementations

Cappuccino
- JavaScript
- Objective-J

People

Other

Comparison of JavaScript frameworks

Comparison of JavaScript frameworks

See also

Notes