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jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your Web pages.
It is not a huge, bloated framework promising the best in AJAX, nor is
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it just a set of needlessly complex enhancements. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
"You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM JavaScript. By the time you are done it's down to two or three lines and it couldn't get any shorter unless it read your mind." - Dave Methvin [Less]
Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.
RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based, multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides the full functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, and message filters. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.
TinyMCE is a platform-independent, Web-based, Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control. Its main features include theme/template support, language support, and plugin extensions.
Dojo is a modular JavaScript toolkit that makes building richer web UI's much easier.
Dojo builds on a fast, lightweight base that provides a competitive set of features (DOM traversal, AJAX, animations, event handling) at the same size as many of
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the alternative "lightweight" toolkits.
On top of that base Dojo provides easy access to an extensive collection of optional modules, including a widget framework that focuses on accessibility and internationalization, 2D and 3D charting and vector graphics, advanced math functions, offline capabilities, cryptography, and much much more. It also comes with a build system that collects and minifies your files into layers that you can include in your page as needed to simplify deployment and improve performance. [Less]
Web development software built on Eclipse. Has gotten over 3000 diggs and 1.9 million downloads. Has been called Dreamweaver killer. Has XHTML, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, and FTP support, and many more features. A must have to all web developers!
This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word. It's lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.
"Official" TextMate Bundles
MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript.
The OpenKomodo Open Source Development Environment for Dynamic Languages and Web Technologies
The Open Komodo project provides a code base upon which integrated development environment (IDE) software packages can be developed. ActiveState's Komodo
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Edit 4.3 and later (an open source, multi-platform, multi-language editor) is an established, mature product that uses the Open Komodo platform.
With the Open Komodo Project, the focus is on dynamic languages and the open web. Open Komodo is developed on top of many open source technologies, including Mozilla, Python, and Scintilla. The primary development technologies used are XUL, JavaScript, Python, and C/C++. [Less]
Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users.
Ajax with style.
Framework that enables ajax on web pages with kss (css-like resources).
No need of Javacript knowledge to use it.
Included in Plone since 3.0
HtmlUnit is a "browser for Java programs". It models HTML documents and provides an API that allows you to invoke pages, fill out forms, click links, etc... just like you do in your "normal" browser.
It has fairly good JavaScript support (which
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is constantly improving) and is able to work even with quite complex AJAX libraries, simulating either Firefox or Internet Explorer depending on the configuration you want to use.
It is typically used for testing purposes or to retrieve information from web sites. [Less]
OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.
The Official Standard Implementation for JavaServer(TM) Faces
Jifty is a way to build web applications.
qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative Ajax application framework. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build impressive cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS nor DOM knowledge is needed.
It includes a
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platform-independent development tool chain, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is Open Source under an LGPL/EPL dual license. [Less]
eyeOS is an Open Source Platform designed to hold a wide variety of Web Applications over it. eyeOS was thought as a new definition of Operating System, where everything inside it can be accessed from everywhere trought a web browser.
haXe is a high-level object-oriented programming language mainly focused on helping programers develop Websites and Web applications. haXe has been designed to be easily portable across several platforms.
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla's JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers, including Firefox 2.x, the Netscape 7.x series of browsers and Mozilla Seamonkey 1.x. It does
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not include Gecko-based browsers such as K-Meleon 1.02, Galeon 2.x and Netscape 8.x. The debugger is available as an add-on package in XPI format and has been provided as part of the Mozilla install distribution since October 3rd 2001. [Less]
Canoo WebTest is a free open source tool for automated testing of web applications.
It calls web pages and verifies results, giving comprehensive reports on success and failure.
The Tacos library project provides components and ajax behaviour for the Tapestry Java Web application framework. Most of the functionality is based on the dojo Javascript library. The intent is to provide a library of high quality components that
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may be used in your tapestry application, as well as provide a core infrastructure for using ajax related logic in these and your own components and pages. [Less]
SproutCore is a framework for building applications in JavaScript with remarkably little amounts of code. It can help you build full "thick" client applications in the web browser that can create and modify data, often completely independent of your web server, communicating with your server via Ajax only when they need to save or load data.
jSeamless is a UI abstraction layer for Java to allow developers to write code for any platform and any environment (Web, Desktop, Mobile, etc.) without having to know ahead of time the deployment platform or environment will.
overLIB is a Javascript library created to enhance Websites with small popup information boxes (like tooltips) to help visitors around your website. It can be used to provide the user with information about what will happen when they click on a link as well as navigational help.
Trails is a domain driven development framework for Java that aims to bring some of the excellent ideas of Ruby on Rails to the Java platform. By developing a POJO domain model with some annotations, it is possible to get a fully working
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Spring/Hibernate/Tapestry application without custom development. Trails does this without any source code generation and all screens are fully customizable as needed. As well, Trails provides other features such as validation, role based security and I18N. [Less]
Eclox is a simple doxygen frontend plug-in for eclipse. It aims to provide a slim and sleek integration of the code documentation process into eclipse by providing a high-level graphical user interface over doxygen.
jslibs is a standalone Javascript development environment whose aim is to turn Javascript into a general-purpose scripting language.
jslibs provides a set of native modules that contains various general-purpose classes and functions.
Some of these
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modules are simple wrappers to familiar libraries such as : zlib, SQLite, FastCGI, NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime), ODE (Open Dynamics Engine), libpng, libjpeg, OpenGL, OpenAL, LibTomCrypt, libffi (Foreign function interface), ...
whereas other modules provide tools to enhance Javascript programming : Print(), Load(), Exec(), Seal(), Expand(), Buffer class, ...
The jslibs distribution comes with a small standalone command-line access program (jshost) that can be used to run Javascript files. [Less]
Paste Monkey can be called "Yet Another Paste Bin", but Paste Monkey is also a RIA Paste Bin. Developed on CakePHP 1.2 for rapid development, this app works perfectly without AJAX.
Using jQuery, plus various libraries, the application comes alive
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with page transitions, colorful effects and feedback, and quick response and loading times.
The main plugin that helps achive this is the Live Query plugin.
It uses the GeSHi library for code highlighting.
The application also has many other features, such as the ability to download the code, as well as edit the code online and create a diff file between them. It features a pinboard for short notices [Less]