AJAX toolkit selection criteria

[David Bolter]

Good idea.

Maybe add open source license compatibility?

What does "even abstraction" mean?

cheers,
David

Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
> We're currently considering four AJAX toolkits (Dojo, Prototype, YUI  
> and Mochikit), and this morning, we discussed possible criteria for  
> selecting which one the Fluid project will work with. What follows  
> are the criteria we discussed. We'd appreciate any comments,  
> thoughts, additions, etc.
>
>
> Over-arching criteria:
>
> - accessibility
> - extensibility
>
> More detailed criteria:
>
> - ease of debugging
> - cross-browser support (IE 6 & 7, Firefox 1.5 and 2, Safari on 10.4,  
> Opera)
> - accessibility support: existing and/or planned
>     - ARIA
>     - keyboard control
>     - high contrast support
> - library for DOM manipulation
> - library for Javascript support
> - plays nice with other javascript toolkits (e.g. no global namespacing)
> - gentle use of coarse-grained even handlers (e.g. doesn't use onload())
> - even abstraction
> - security
> - supports extension
> - skinability - ease of changing default appearance
> - community support
>
>
> --
> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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