🆚 Scriptaculous vs. YUI
- 📈 Scriptaculous is noticeably more popular than YUI.
- 🌍 Scriptaculous is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 YUI is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Spain.
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About
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.
YUI is a legacy, open-source JavaScript and
CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency.
It includes over 30 modules covering DOM manipulation, event handling, animations, data utilities, and UI components, and provides a dependency management system with dynamic module loading.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Argentina in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Canada in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Spain in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain 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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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