Ajax Framework Usage and Popularity | October 12th, 2007
It’s exciting times for Ajax! Applications are being released more often, frameworks are maturing and new platforms like the iPhone and AIR are expanding it’s reach.
I just read the results from the Ajaxian survey of it’s readers…here are some of the major findings:
- Prototype and Scriptaculous still dominate the field with 68% and 59% of readers using them, respectively. jQuery has a respectable 48% share. Yahoo UI!, Dojo, and Ext JS round out the top six. Google Gears enjoys usage by 22% of survey participants–pretty amazing for its youth. Despite Java’s popularity amongst our readers, DWR is only used by 13% of readers, which surprised us.
- A little over 50% of readers use PHP, and about 40% use Java. Only 20% of readers use .NET technologies.
- The biggest concern on your mind? Cross-browser rendering issues, with 60% of you listing it as your biggest concern.
Oddly enough we were chatting about the most popular open source Ajax frameworks so I turned to my old friend Alexa, here’s what it says:
So as you can see the new kid on the block seems to be jQuery, wow! Of course the Alexa data is current and the Ajaxian survey is historical. As is in already implemented. This makes sense as Prototype/Scriptcaculous were amongst the first Ajax frameworks. Unfortunately you can’t really use Alexa for YUI since it doesn’t have it’s own URL, pitty. Interesting that even though jQuery and EXT are relatively new they’re very popular…could another framework still join the party kick everyone’s butt? Unfortunately Moo Tools and Mochi Kit haven’t been included…but with hundreds of frameworks to choose from you can’t have it all:)
We’ve been bashing around the idea of baking in better support,leveraging and/or supporting an OS framework here at Nitobi. Which one should we choose?
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