Monday, May 2, 2011

Dealing with JavaScript browser compatibility issue

The best way to deal with browser compatibility issue is to use following frameworks, which provide java script code that work well with most of the browsers

Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform, JavaScript/Ajax-based applications and web sites. More information about it can be found at the below links -

http://dojotoolkit.org/
http://dojotoolkit.org/api/
http://dojotoolkit.org/widgets
http://dojotoolkit.org/grids-charts
http://dojotoolkit.org/documentation/

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) -Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications in Java. Other than a few native libraries, everything is Java source that can be built on any supported platform with the included GWT Ant build files
GWT emphasizes reusable, efficient solutions to recurring Ajax challenges, namely asynchronous remote procedure calls, history management, bookmarking, internationalization and cross-browser portability.

More information can be found at the blow links -
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/gettingstarted.html