About Web Development by Activo » JavaScript Framework http://www.activoinc.com/blog Web Development in a Web 2.0 World Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:25:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 jQuery Emerges as Most Popular Javascript Library for Web Development http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/11/03/jquery-emerges-as-most-popular-javascript-library-for-web-development/ http://www.activoinc.com/blog/2008/11/03/jquery-emerges-as-most-popular-javascript-library-for-web-development/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:01:50 +0000 Ron Peled http://www.activoinc.com/blog/?p=111 It seems to be official: jQuery is gaining ground faster than any other JavaScript Library. There may be many reasons but I like to think that jQuery is leading the pack due to its simplicity and relatively small size. Here is what Google Trends is showing us:

Top Reasons for jQuery’s ground gaining:

  • Simplicity.
  • Small in size: only 15K for latest production release after its minified and gzipped.
  • Extendable: pretty big plugin library. Currently showing hundreds of plugins.
  • CSS3 Compliant and one of the first JS Library to use CSS selectors.
  • Handles AJAX very well while avoiding code bloating.
  • Major adoption by ASP.NET developers and teaming up with ASP.NET’s team for improved integration

jQuery Resources:

Other Javascript Libraries:

All these Javascript frameworks provide the basic idea of single developer resource for cross browser and cross platform JavaScript development. Additionally, all make AJAX a little bit easier:

If you know of any additional interesting jQuery Resources, drop me a line. Thanks!

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