Atlas vs Yahoo UI Library

Hi folks,

I was testing Atlas and learning the basis of it and Ajax. The Tasklist sample that comes with Atlas just crash my Firefox when moving the Note div !
Anyways.. that's not the point, and I still believe in Atlas. Might just be an extension that make it crashes!

This post is more about the popularity of Atlas vs Yahoo UI Library or any other ajax / UI related library.

I would like to know which ones tend to be used among web developpers, the pros and cons of the major players..

Thanks for any help!

Hi Martin,

One of the things we are trying to-do with Atlas is provide a very strong foundation base for building Ajax UI controls and libraries on top. So I think you'll find that Atlas probably has a richer foundation and library platform layer than most Ajax libraries out there.

Having said that, it is still new -- so we don't have all the controls out there that we would like to have. We will be announcing a new Atlas Control Pack shortly with a bunch of additional controls that help with this, but until then you can probably find cool libraries like the Yahoo one that have more cool UI widgets.

Over the next few months, as the Atlas control ecosystem grows, I think you'll find even more cool UI widgets with Atlas and .NET.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Thanks for your reply Scott!

By curiosity, how many people work on such a great project? is it a few like ~5 people or is it more like 20 or even more?

Right now, I'm developping an intranet for a customer of ours, and I'd like to integrate drag and drop functionnality. Does atlas is stable enough for me to use that? As I said, one of the demo just crash my firefox.

I'm really excited about Atlas and would prefer continu using MS stuff over other stuff.

Thanks