Google is open sourcing a collection of Javascript tools today that will enable developers to build faster, more powerful and more efficient web applications using some of the same code that runs Gmail, Google Maps and Docs.
Why is Google doing this? Because the more powerful web applications become, the more important Google’s search, browser and nascent OS become. More relevant to developers than some grand anti-Microsoft conspiracy, though, is that some serious UI sweetness may be forthcoming …
With the advent of information age, several efforts to streamline the development of web pages have come in to being. Different frameworks have distinct set of libraries, set of functionalities, capabilities and different objectives with which they are built …
With time some of these frameworks mature and thus become the standard in the developer community.
All these frameworks have some common themes such as reusability of pieces of code which are used frequently by the developers in their code, object orientation, providing simplicity of the structure of the code, and ease of coding allowing the developer to focus on the objective outcome of the job at hand without being cluttered by the intricate details of making simple things work out.
It is a bit too late to release the news because I just noticed it this morning. The next generation of script.aculo.us a well known, powerful and flexible JavaScript library is already in alpha release. Thomas Fuchs has announced the alpha release of script.aculo.us also known as scripty2. Scripty2 is designed to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces …
