Other JavaScript Libraries
Jeremy McPeak, Paul Wilton · 2015
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library today. Thousands of JavaScript libraries and utilities are available, and each one can typically be categorized into two groups: general and specialty. The aim of general frameworks is to balance the differences between browsers by creating a new, unified API to perform general tasks like DOM manipulation and Ajax functionality. This chapter looks at both general and specific frameworks. The frameworks covered here are established, stable, popular, and compatible with every major modern browser (and even legacy versions of IE). Modernizr is a library designed to detect HTML5 and CSS features supported by the browser. Prototype is a framework that provides a simple API to perform web tasks. MooTools is another framework that aims to be compact while offering a simple API to make common tasks easier. Like Prototype, MooTools also aims to enhance the JavaScript language.