🆚 jQuery vs. Prototype
- 📈 jQuery is much more popular than Prototype.
- 🌍 jQuery is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Prototype is particularly popular in Germany.
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jQuery is a fast, small, feature-rich 
JavaScript library designed to simplify 
HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, event handling, 
CSS animations, and Ajax.
It provides a cross-browser selector engine, formerly known as Sizzle, supports deferred and promise objects for asynchronous workflows, has built-in 
JSON parsing and utility functions, and allows extensibility through a large ecosystem of plugins.
Prototype is a legacy open-source JavaScript framework that eases cross-browser development of dynamic web applications.
It offers Ajax helpers for asynchronous requests, DOM extensions including element selection shortcuts and a CSS selector engine, class-based inheritance, an Enumerable module for array iteration, form field access methods, and a template formatting class.
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 50th most popular in Lithuania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 60th most popular in Finland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 61st most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 61st most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 63rd most popular in the Netherlands in the JavaScript Libraries 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 3,814,833 websites.
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