Most popular AJAX frameworks: Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo
Fact recorded on: September 28, 2006. Categories: Software dev.
Ajaxian.com survey of most popular AJAX frameworks resulted in Prototype winning with 43% followed by Scriptaculous with 33% and Dojo with 19%. DWR (Direct Web Remoting) was 4th with 12% of developers preferring this framework, followed by Moo.fx (11%), jQuery (7%), Yahoo! UI (5%) and Rico (5%).
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