[Dojo-interest] AJAX Toolkits

[Daniel]

Hello,

Tom Trenka wrote:
> I don't want to come across as an Ajaxian survey basher here,

Not at all. Great information. Thanks for posting.

In addition to what Tom said, I'll point out that even a survey that 
took a "fair" sample of developers, would some biases:

1. It'll be biased towards the smallest libraries. If you use Prototype 
just for the $() and otherwise do everything by hand, you'll say "I use 
Prototype". Can you see someone using Dojo just for dojo.byId()?

Small libraries will have a large population of novice programmers who 
only use $() and similar shortcuts.

2. It'll be biased towards whatever is oldest. I believe that this also 
means Prototype.

This isn't anybody's fault. It's an inevitable effect of trying to 
compare things which really aren't apples and apples. A more interesting 
comparison is YUI, Ext and Dojo. Those seem more comparable.


> I should also mention that if we at Dojo tried to do a similar survey...

I would be as if msdn ran a survey to see which browser is most popular. 
Or if fsf.org ran a survey to see which browser is most popular. Biased 
sample.

> if you survey
> Java people, you'll probably see a spread between Dojo, DWR and GWT, etc.

Really? I would love to hear more about this. What does Dojo have that 
would appeal especially to Java programmers?

Daniel.