Frameworks for JavaScript UI Widgets?

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I'm trying to put together a list of JavaScript UI widget frameworks for consideration in a project. Ideally it would be a library that has a range of ready made ui widgets, no dependencies on dom/js extention/manipulation frameworks like JQuery or Prototype, minimal additional cruft, such as Ajax API's and DOM selectors etc.

Here's what I have so far:

qooxdoo,
ScriptClient
ExtJs

Could anyone suggest any other that are worth a look?

Please do not suggest, JQuery, Prototype, Mootools, Dojo etc, their primary focus is not to provide ui widgets.

The primary focus of Dojo Dijit (a sub-project of Dojo) is to provide widgets. Take a look. — Eugene Lazutkin, Dec 05 '08 at 16:06

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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Answered here: Your choice of cross-browser javascript GUI and here: What are alternatives to ExtJS?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Dec 05 '08 at 09:30

Sergey Ilinsky

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '08 at 08:39

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YUI (yahoo user interface) has a nice set of ui widgets.

answered Dec 05 '08 at 08:39

Satya

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 05 '08 at 09:14

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There is not so small list of AJAX and JavaScript solutions. I know, it is not some library, but maybe you'll find something useful.

answered Dec 05 '08 at 09:14

Pawka

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 05 '08 at 09:23

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This wiki article is a nice comparison of different java script frames works. This comparison is based on different parameters. It gives insight into different aspects of frameworks.

answered Dec 05 '08 at 09:23

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personally I have worked with ExtJS. You can use it for commercial purpose with very little fee. And very nice support and a very active community. – Biswanath Dec 05 '08 at 09:35

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 05 '08 at 09:10

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My opinion of Dojo is that it's actually very much orientated at providing UI widgets, not that I'd recommend it anyway.

I think you'll struggle with your limitations: every widget-like framework beyond the most trivial examples depends on some base JS framework to do the heavy lifting - and that's a good thing.

answered Dec 05 '08 at 09:10

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Specifically Dojo Dijit (a subproject) is all about widgets. – Eugene Lazutkin Dec 05 '08 at 16:05
["oriented"](http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11874/oriented-vs-orientated) – Dan Dascalescu Dec 02 '14 at 04:11

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 05 '08 at 15:20

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Active Widgets (http://www.activewidgets.com) - very good controls that resemble those commonly found in Win32 and work very well in both IE and Firefox.

answered Dec 05 '08 at 15:20

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score -1 · Answer 7 · answered May 01 '09 at 16:43

Rialto (Rich Internet Application Toolkit) is ajax-based cross browser javascript widgets library. Because it is technology agnostic it can be encapsulated in JSP, JSF, .Net, Python or PHP graphic components. The purpose of Rialto is to ease the access to rich internet application development to corporate developers. Ideally a Rialto developer have neither need to write or understand DHTML, Ajax or DOM code.

The target of Rialto is corporate web applications and not internet web sites.

Rialto ceased development in 2012. – Dan Dascalescu Dec 02 '14 at 04:12 — Dan Dascalescu, Dec 02 '14 at 04:12

score -2 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 11 '10 at 00:31

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Sproutcore has a nice set: http://www.sproutcore.com/

answered Apr 11 '10 at 00:31

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Sproutcore says on [their About page](http://sproutcore.com/about/): **SproutCore is not for drop-in widgets** – Dan Dascalescu Dec 02 '14 at 04:10

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