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SmoothGallery2.0 – Fantastic Ajax Gallery

November 11th, 2008

Looking around for a decent Javascript gallery to use on ‘this site’ – I came across by far the most comprehensive and pleasant to use in: SmoothGallery2.0

It uses the MooTools library and has a slick interface.  The only downside I’d say is that for large sets of images using a Gallery Set it can get slow and bogged down.

Having a sniff around the code of the gallery it looks like MooTools is well worth a look.  Putting Prototype to shame and coming close to jQuery for slickness.

It also begs the question – why are people still bothering to use Prototype?

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6 Ajax Frameworks in Seconds

April 8th, 2008

JavascriptLets skip the big comparisons here and get to brass tacks. Here’s the rapid review of Ajax frameworks:

  • YUI -Stable and comprehensive but a little verbose.
  • jQuery – Clean, fresh and perky but plenty of hacked, cruddy plugins to be wary of.
  • Ext – Beautiful to look at but agonising to use.
  • Prototype/Scriptaculous – Only popular because its used by Rails and CakePHP, but you can do better with jQuery.
  • Dojo – Meh.
  • MooTools – Trying to be like Prototype, little realising its picked thewrong one to copy.

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