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AUL adds accesskey underlines to html pages without putting the u in the source. All you do is tag your legends or buttons with the accesskey attribute and then include the library. The js code will search through all the elements with access key set and add the u tags to the dom. If the character isn't found in the element it will be added to the end.

Behavior works by using css selectors to add javascript code to DOM elements. You create a hash of css selectors and functions that take an element add onclick etc JavaScript. You then register these rules against a page and matches them against there matching DOM elements and the JavaScript code is added. The code is designed in a way that you can treat these rule files just like style sheets so all the page using them needs is an include. Behaviour's goal is to remove the heavy use of onclick attributes and script nodes from pages so they aren't messing up content. It works well and can help make your JavaScript more reusable since its more centralized.

Includes live search, Posting of a form, an active grid, various effects and notifications as well.

domTT while providing tooltips also provides a number of related features such as custom content menus or fake popups. Very featureful library with good examples of each feature and option.

Mainly a cross browser XMLHttpRequest wrapper. General use case seems to do content replace from a result but you can also set a onLoad handler and run callbacks from there.

Dojo is a class library for JavaScript and DHTML. At the core of Dojo is a package system that can include as little or as much of this class library as your application needs. Dojo "plays nice" with other tools (does not pollute gloabal objects or namespace) and is lightweight to develop with and even faster when you deploy it. Dojo provides a capable widget system that makes building and using widgets in markup drop-dead easy. Overviews of many parts of the system are available on the Dojo wiki at http://dojo.jot.com.

A JavaScript to Java rpc mechanism using JSON. Supports mapping Java objects to JavaScript, this mapping is done at object creation time instead of using pregenerated proxy objects like most approaches. The java side is a Servlet, a bridge is also provided for using in JSP pages. Out of the box supports a large number of Java types, includes Class hinting support to help manage the process.

Blog Agregator for people invloved in the JSAN Project, sort of a CPAN for Javascript code

Great looking AJAX calendar, supports drag and drop rescheduling and resizing. Events are only scheduled in day intervals and there is no overlap checking. Supports multiple categories each with a ics export and a rss feed. Events that span multiple days are shown as a single enity. Works in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and IE.

Extension of an earlier tutorial showing basic text replacement. Lots of code shown but not much in the way of explanation. Includes commented javascript code with a decent Cross Browser XMLHttpRequest implementation.

Article covering howto load data from a remote server using IFrames

This is the stand-alone version of the Ruby-on-Rails javascript library. Provides Basic Cross browser AJAX support, but there is no documentation so using it outside of rails will take a bit of work. Looks like it has an api for easy content replacement. Most exciting features are easy to use effects like fade, appear, blindup, they are documented on their own site.

Presentation gives a general AJAX overview, lots of coverage on removing

Rico is a object oriented Javascript library that provides most of what you need to create AJAX applications. It supports ajax using either either content replace or callback objects. The drag and drop, effects, and behaviors so easy to use and look great in the demo. Rico is being developed by Sabre Airline Solutions and extends the Prototype js library using its effect and base classes.

Provides a purly JavaScript driven AJAX implementation. A nice simple implementation built within a single js class. Most usage is based on overriding methods on this class at runtime, or accessing member variables. While the implementation is simple the api while not hard to understand isn't as simple as the name would suggest.

A basic javascript library which serializes javascript data types into xml-rpc payloads. JavaScript Remote Scripting is used for communication with the server. The actual usage seems pretty raw, since there is no wsdl or other proxy generation support. All major JavaScript datatypes are supported and the code includes a php script which acts as a proxy to any XML-RPC service. The actual XML-RPC generation code looks easy to use with other tranports if needed.

Slides explaining how a JavaScript behavior layer works and why you should use it

A weblog about JavaScript quirks, caveats, odd hacks, curiosities and collected wisdom. Focused on practical uses for web application development.

Brief overview of AJAX, defining it showing its structural differences from old web models. This article wasn't about new technology but it was about a new name and that name stuck.

Using Sajax Daren Jackson created dynamically editable database table. Cells are edited using click to edit and the updates are saved using ajax when you click on another cell. Its a great look demo and an example of what you can do with AJAX but its not yet wrapped up as an easy to use widget.

Provides a cross browsers (IE and Mozilla) api for sending requests over XMLHttpRequest using either GET or POST. Supports synchronous and asynchronous operation. Provides some basic utility functions for working with the resulting xml. Also provides caching support and a pool for XMLHttpRequest objects.

A PHP GPL application that provides a Streaming MP3 Jukebox. The application uses sajax for all content loading, providing lots of nice feedback offering good usability. The only problem seems to be that it only supports firefox and safari.

Cross-browser wrapper for native XML APIs. It offers various XML related goodies like Document instantiation, XML loading from URLs or strings, XSLT transformations, XPath queries. Provides an XMLHttpRequest wrapper thats supports synchronous and asynchronous operation.

script.aculo.us is built on top of prototype and adds in a large number of fully documented visual effects. It also includes a drag and drop library. Demos are provided of all features including small sample applications.

Adds cross browser drag and drop support with resize supports. Works on images and on most any div. Also provides a basic animation api and some other DHTML functionality.

A PHP AJAX lib providing mapped functions and asynchronous operation. Mapped funtions are procedural and are prefixed in javascrpt with xajax_. The unique feature is that you don't write callback methods in your JavaScript code, instead you create an xajax response object that says what elements to do content replacement with or even what JavaScript code to add to the page.