[TYPO3-ect] Evaluation: Which JS library to recommend?

[Steffen Kamper]

"Ingo Renner" <ingo at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1193645973.10822.typo3-team-extension-coordination at lists.netfielders.de...
> ries van Twisk wrote:
>
> Hi Ries,
>
>> I know about scriptaculous, but the widgets I see there is a joke 
>> compared to ExtJS and DOJO,
>> I don't believe the prototype doe do any widgets at all.
>
> No it doesn't, but that's not what prototype is about.
>
>> At least for me having support for widgets is important.
>
> If you want widgets I'd suggest prototype + scriptacolous + extJS
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>
> Ingo
>

i do a lot with extjs - and i don't see the need of using prototype as base, 
i use extjs standalone.
Think of heavyness of the libs:
extjs ~ 450KB
prototype+scriptacolous ~ 80KB
Is there any reason to use prototype in this scenario?

vg  Steffen