Seeking new AJAX library to replace XAJAX...

[eluser]jz[/eluser]
Hello All,

I'm searching for a replacement to XAJAX(http://www.xajax-project.org), which I've used extensively on two very large projects over the last several years...
I love XAJAX, and it has been been sweet, but I get the sense the developers have lost their steam and so, I'm looking to see if there's a suitable replacement.

The app I built and maintain uses CI, XAJAX, and I use drupal for blogs and auth. All of my custom interface code uses XAJAX and and modalbox.js.

If you can understand why a shortcut like XAJAX makes sense in the first place, I'm especially interested in hearing from you.

Thanks in advance,

moo

[eluser]NotoriousWebmaster[/eluser]
Is there some reason you're avoiding jQuery? Extremely flexible; loads of docs; tonnes of people using it, so very active community support. All good reasons to go that route.

[eluser]IgnitedCoder[/eluser]
@JZ

Sorry this is kinda of a very very late response... XAJAX is a live and well and continues to be developed. I've used it on many projects and will continue to do so well into the future. The xajax forum has picked up in activity recently and 0.6 should be completed in the not too distant future. I use XAJAX and jQuery together and they work very well together.

[eluser]jz[/eluser]
@IgnitedCoder

Thanks so much for your input!

As a current XAJAX developer, do you feel that XAJAX 0.6 beta is pretty stable? Browsers have been undergoing rapid change at a pace that seasoned devs would have once found unimaginable... and so, I'm particularly concerned about browser compatibility. Have you had any trouble with XAJAX 0.6 beta in that regard?

Thanks again for your reply!

[eluser]jz[/eluser]
@NotoriousWebmaster

Thanks for your question... The reason I've avoided jQuery is that I've got a lot of code built already in (http://prototypejs.org) that dates back to 2006, when the outcome of the jQuery vs prototype popularity contest was as yet unknown.

As for why I value solutions like (http://www.xajax-project.org) instead of just using jQuery... XAJAX is a PHP-based javascript code generator (as well as other things) and it performs certain repetitive tasks very well from the PHP side of my application, saving me tons of javascript hand-coding. It lets me use PHP to write javascript.

As far as I know, it has no equivalent in the jQuery world (or others, for that matter). If you know of one, please let me know!

Thanks,

jz