🆚 Prototype vs. Scriptaculous
- 📈 Prototype is twice as popular as Scriptaculous.
- 🌍 Prototype is more popular in all countries.
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About
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.
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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Awards
- ⬆️ 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.
- ⭐ 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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🗃️ About This Data
- 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.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.