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I'm currently loving the script.aculo.us javascript library.
For another site which I'm developing I'm using it heavily, for both Ajax requests and the effects it provides.
Still on my TODO-list for this site is to remove my home-grown Ajax code with an external library and that would probably be the one I use.
(There isn't too much javascript used upon this site; the messaging system is the biggest user, after that the tag handling I guess. Nothing too tricky but it took me ages to write by hand. That probably says more about me than javascript ;)
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I'm still getting my head wrapped around these beasties and don't like relying upon the authors' viewpoints of what works and what doesn't. All the babies are beautiful, even the ugly ones who cry all the time. (I'm that way about my own code, too, until I look at it again later.) I'd rather hear from someone who isn't championing The Cause, so if you have any opinions one way or the other about the stuff you're using I'd really appreciate your sharing them.
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(In case you're unaware the new site I'm working on is an online dating site. I've talked about it here in the past, but not in much detail.)
For the new site I'm not using any framework on the server-side, it is all hand-written.
I did begin development using the excellent CGI::Application MVC framework. However over time I found I was fighting the framework more than working productively. (This suprised me, since I've used that system a lot in the past, very happily!)
As for the script.alicio.us javascript framework I'm loving it. I found it very simple to get started with, both because it is simple to use and because there is good documentation available.
To be honest I'm not doing very much more at the moment than I am here - Just adding/hiding/showing <div>'s, and updating things based upon Ajax callbacks.
Still even with that using the library was a lot simpler than rolling my own which I did for this site.
If you have more specific questions I'm happy to try to answer them, but really the best I can say at the moment is that I like using script.alicio.us - the only downside is that I can never remember how to spell it ;)
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