Useful AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries ...

Ajax , DHTML and JavaScript are important Libraries to develop Web 2.0 application. Today, AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries is widely used by web developers to build dynamic web pages and add more special effects.

In this article, you will read about the some Useful AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries to develop web application easily.

   1.Prototype -JavaScript Framework

      Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to Easily development of dynamic web applications. A unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around .

      Now Prototype is most popular between web application developers everywhere. Prototype is release License under MIT (source code) and CC BY-SA (documentation).

   2.AHAH: Asynchronous HTML and HTTP

      AHAH now stands for Asychronous HTML and HTTP , a technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. The Main Aim of AHAH is to enable an (X)HTML document to dynamically fetch HTML from other documents, thus creating one document that is an assembly of information from many HTML documents.

   3.dojo

      dojo is a open source single, lightweight JavaScript toolkit for create Web UIs. It aims to shorten the timespan between idea and implementation by providing an exceptionally well conceived API and set of tools for assisting and fixing the issues experienced in everyday web development.Dojo is completely free JavaScript toolkit , released licensed under (AFL or BSD).

   4.Yahoo! User Interface Library

      The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a open source JavaScript Library for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. YUI is open source JavaScript library released under a BSD license and is free for all uses.

   5.MochiKit

      Mochikit is a well tested, lightweight JavaScript library. MochiKit is available to you under the MIT license, or the written-by-a-very-smart-lawyer Academic Free License, v2.1. Mochikit is tested with Safari 2.0.2, Firefox 1.0.7, Firefox 1.5b2, Internet Explorer 6, and Opera 8.5.

   6.Ext JS

      Ext Js is a open source lightweight, high-performance cross-browser JavaScript library for building dynamic web pages. Ext JS supports all major web browsers including: Internet Explorer 6+ , FireFox 1.5+ (PC, Mac) ,Safari 3+ ,Opera 9+ (PC, Mac) .

   7.openrico

      Rico is a open source JavaScript library for building Rich Internet applications.Rico provides a very simple interface for registering Ajax request handlers as well as HTML elements or JavaScript objects as Ajax response objects. Multiple elements and/or objects may be updated as the result of one Ajax request. Rico is provided free and open-source (Apache 2.0 License) for either your personal or commercial use.

   8.AJS

      AJS is a ultra lightweight JavaScript library

      AJS includes:
         1. Powerful and easy to use AJAX functions
         2. Performance
         3. Drag and drop
         4. Effects
         5. Functional programming such as AJS.map, AJS.partial
         6. DOM functions such as AJS.$
         7. AJAX JSON support (with AJS.loadJSON and AJS.serializeJSON)
         8. Unified position and size and events that works in all the modern browsers

   9.Dynamic Drive

      DHTML & JavaScript code library

  10.JSL :: JavaScript Standard Library

      JSL is a open source single, lightweight JavaScript Standard Library . Its goals is to forget work arounds for every library or script that is included on a web page. You could just add JSL even before your scripts to add portability or more compatibility, then you don need to rewrite anything. JSL is compatible with every browser that supports at least JavaScript 1.2.

  11.DHTMLgoodies

      DHTMLgoodies.com offers a easy to use library of DHTML and AJAX scripts.

  12.DynAPI 3

      DynAPI 3 is an open-sourced project initiated by Dan Steinman, created to make cross-browser Dynamic HTML components on a web page. The DynAPI library uses an object-oriented approach to solve problems associated with scripting for both Netscape and Internet Explorer.

  13.Taojax :

      The Taojax User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.

  14.subGrey

      subGrey is used to display DHTML modal dialogs on webpages. subGrey is based on subModal.

  15.ASP.NET AJAX framework:

      ASP.NET AJAX is the free Microsoft AJAX framework for building highly interactive and responsive web applications that work across all popular browsers. The ASP.NET AJAX framework includes Server-Side and Client-Side ASP.NET AJAX, the AJAX Control Toolkit, and the jQuery library that provides easy-to-use yet powerful Ajax functionality that allows developers to choose their preferred method of AJAX development, whether it is server-side programming, client-side programming, or a combination of both.

  16.jx - JavaScript Ajax Library

      jx is a small toolkit for providing AJAX support in JavaScript. It supports GET and POST method. The supported return types are plain text and JSON.

  17.AjaxCore

      AjaxCore is an open source PHP framework that aims the ease development of rich AJAX applications, using Prototype’s JavaScript standard library as the core for making the AJAX requests.

  18.ThyApi

      ThyAPI is a Dynamic HTML Library that permits the creation of Application-like interfaces accessible using only a browser.

  19.Zephyr

      zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement.

  20.script.aculo.us

      script.aculo.us is a cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly. it is a collection of Web 2.0 style JavaScript libraries that help web developers to easily add visual and Ajax effects to projects.

  21.moo.fx

      moo.fx is a light weight, ultra tiny JavaScript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework. It is very easy to use, cross-browser, standards compliant, provides controls to modify any CSS property of any HTML element . moo.fx is open source JavaScript library released under the MIT License .

  22.FACE

      A way to easily bring life and interactivity to websites without having to use Flash. Completely accessible, with easy plug-and-play implementation.

  23.Kabuki AJAX Toolkit

      Kabuki AjaxTK is a client developer library, similar in style to traditional object-oriented widget libraries like Eclipse’s SWT, albeit for Javascript.