🆚 GSAP vs. Scriptaculous
- 📈 GSAP is much more popular than Scriptaculous.
- 🌎 GSAP is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Scriptaculous is more popular in New Caledonia.
GSAP
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About
GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is an open-source 
JavaScript animation library that enables developers to create high-performance, cross-browser animations for 
HTML elements, 
CSS properties, SVG, canvas, and JavaScript objects.
It includes a fast, low-level tweening engine with advanced timeline sequencing, custom easing, motion paths, and optional plugins such as ScrollTrigger and Draggable for scroll-based and interactive effects.
Script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript library built on the Prototype framework that provides visual effects, user interface controls, and AJAX utilities for web applications.
It includes a core set of five combinable effects for opacity, scaling, movement, highlighting, and parallel execution, supports drag-and-drop and sortable lists, provides autocompletion and in-place editing controls, and offers DOM utilities and a unit testing framework.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Animation category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Animation category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Greece in the Animation category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Animation category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Nepal in the Animation category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Animation category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Animation category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Poland in the Animation category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Hungary in the Animation category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Romania in the Animation category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,823,966 websites.
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