Personally, I find that limiting oneself to a single library is too restrictive. For my situation, we've "approved" jquery and YUI, primarily because they're well-documented. Difficulty aside, if you need to complete a task, looking at the docs long enough will get you there. I'm thinking of mixing in Ext, primarily for its "Combobox" widget, which is the only library widget out there that works just the way I want.
I'd argue for a list of "approved" libraries. If all developers involved agree that they can support a given library, it should be permissible. The top libraries are all great, but none of them do everything. (Well, Dojo tries, but... :) ) The only libraries that we've "rejected" so far are Dojo (insufficient documentation - we may revisit it if the docs ever actually get written), Mochikit (none of us really know Python, so much of it is counter-intuitive), and Prototype (it's a mess, although a bit less so lately). We don't want to adopt too many libraries, but we do want to make sure that all of our needs are covered without us having to reinvent the wheel. Jquery helps a lot, because there are so many contributed plugins. But, it doesn't cover everything - at least not yet. Hopefully, people are open-minded, and willing to mash up 2-3 different libraries. HTH - Brian > Tomorrow in our weekly meeting someone is going to discuss YUI and the > possibilities of adopting it as a standard. > > I'm looking for opinions why jQuery may be a better choice!! :) > > I know this is a delicate topic and that there is no 'right' answer... > Feel free to email me offlist if you like. > > Does anyone know of any kind of javascript library matrix that compares > the feature sets of all the popular libraries?? > > Thanks, > Jim
