The following outlines the various JavaScript frameworks which are being contemplated for use on the Monk Workbench, with links to their Documentation and Examples. There is also an overview of the Blueprint CSS framework.

This page also links to the various JS effects demos developed by Matt Bouchard and Johnny Rodgers.

The following demos are built using the MooTools framework.

• Tool animating from a thumbnail to a usable view and back.
• Dealing animation from toolbar to table.
• Drag and Droppable Tools.

Script.aculo.us

script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.

• URL: http://www.script.aculo.us
• Documentation: Scriptaculous Wiki
• Example Page: Demos (Sortables, Drag & Droppables, Inline Editors, Effects)

JQuery

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

• URL: http://jquery.com/
• Documentation: Tutorials and Reference API
• Example Page: Demos

Moo.fx (MooTools)

• URL: http://mootools.net/
• Documentation: Language Reference
• Example Page: Demos (Sortables, Drag & Droppables, Inline Editors, Effects)

moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework.

It's very easy to use, blazing fast, cross-browser, standards compliant, provides controls to modify any CSS property of any HTML element, including colors, with builtin checks that won't let a user break the effect with multiple, crazy clicks. Optimized to make you write the lesser code possible, the new moo.fx is so modular you can create any kind of effect with it.

Dojo

• URL: http://dojotoolkit.org/
• Documentation: Dojo 0.4 Book
• Example Page: Demos

Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It builds on several contributed code bases (nWidgets, Burstlib, f(m)), which is why we refer to it sometimes as a "unified" toolkit. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development.

Rico

JavaScript for rich internet applications.

• URL: http://openrico.org/rico/home.page
• Documentation: Rico Forum (Formal Documentation Non-Existent)
• Example Page: Demos

Blueprint

• URL: http://bjorkoy.com/blueprint/
• Documentation: Google Code Tutorial
• Example Page: Grid, Baseline, and Typography Test

Welcome to Blueprint! This is a CSS framework designed to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your own CSS on. Here are some of the features BP provides out-of-the-box:

• An easily customizable grid
• Sensible default typography
• A typographic baseline
• Perfected browser CSS reset
• A stylesheet for printing
• Absolutely no bloat