The JavaScript Framework Long Tail
Date : 2008 09 05 Category : Tech & DevelopmentOne of the reasons Dion is such an effective editor here at Ajaxian is his sense for filtering all of the available news from the Ajax community down to about three stories a day. Truth-be-told, with all the submissions we get and what we find on our own, we could easily post 10 stories a day. But in today’s saturated environment, we find three stories is about the right number to keep from overwhelming our readership with too much noise. We hope you agree, and we’re interested in hearing if you feel otherwise.
A consequence of this arbitrary filtering is that some of the lesser known frameworks and libraries simply don’t get covered. We never try to be king-makers, nor do we have that kind of clout–we simply can’t cover everything.
We enjoyed Six Revisions’ recent round-up of 10 new/up-and-coming JavaScript frameworks, many of which we’ve never covered, like Midori, Archetype, JUNE, UIZE, Simple.js, and fleegix.js.
The adventurous among you should take a look! Not too long ago, an up-start named jQuery shook up the existing players… some of these may be next.