As we work through conceptual guidelines of new revision to the PHP Application Framework, we battle hard to incorporate a standard client-side library that can provide robust support to AJAX calls, and at the same time, can help build client layer easily and in quick manner. The numerous attractive libraries pose a great difficulty to choose the right one.
We are not interested in choosing just a light-weight one. We would rather like to have an enterprise-grade Javascript library which can be used for broad-range of purposes. The natural choice becomes jQuery as it provides a well-performing core file along with diverse set of plugins for almost all required tasks. The better part is that it provides a customizable user interface (UI) library to achieve the client-side UI building tasks. Though the library is yet to cover all macro-aspects of functional information architecture like menus and layouts, the library provides a step in right direction.
