Comments on: MooTools vs JQuery vs Prototype vs YUI vs Dojo Comparison Revised

By: Nimbus

Nimbus — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:08:57 +0000

What do the number mean in the charts? The articles seems well thought out but if you have not used slickspeed before the numbers don’t really have any meaning. Do the number represent the number of actions over a fixed time or do they represent the time required for a fixed number of actions? And which actions and time?

Thanks for the article though.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:39:59 +0000

I’m guessing lower is better?

You really should leave some kind of comment somewhere explaining that.

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By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:23:58 +0000

Great comparison. Thanks for the write-up. ‘Would love to see it updated to latest versions if you get time-

Thanks again-

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 29 May 2011 11:07:36 +0000

A really nice comparison and helpful comments, as some commenter said, it would be a help to write that shorter is better and a new test using the newest builds, for example YUI 3.3. Thank you Peter.

By: webdesigner

webdesigner — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:17:07 +0000

thanks for sharing with the useful info

By: Aeuce

Aeuce — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:52:26 +0000

For all who are asking questions like: Which are better – long or short?

If you are reading this article, then you should _really_ know this. Why would you read it if you don’t understand even basic browser measurements, or even javascript? (Which, if you did not know, what this article is _all_ about)

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By: Naman

Naman — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:34:08 +0000

Hey thanks for this, Peter.

I’ve to pick a JS framework for a JS heavy app. No DOM functionality, CSS support doesn’t matter; it’ll be mainly widgets that interact with each other and the server with ajax calls. So events, code architecture, performance make all the difference.

After looking through this post and all the given links, I’m leaning very heavily toward YUI because of the architecture. Thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:21:14 +0000

Thanks, great article and interesting comments. I recently chose jQuery to include for fancy stuff in the intranet web application I developed with Java, JSP I’ll also move AJAX handling to it when I can – good riddance, but at least now I know AJAX well. This article made me consider YUI more closely. I actually just saw it in another app we use when I just thought to check what it might be using. I guess I’ll stick with jQuery though. The different syntax is a bit annoying, though nice to be less verbose, but it seems like jQuery has the most momentum behind it. Is this true? I don’t need a ton of features, just really basic stuff, so I was planning on using jQuery without plugins if possible. They actually just added the one thing I was looking for to start small with – Tooltips.

Peter, you recommend jQuery (or mootools) over YUI in the comments. What are the reasons?