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Oh boy. Someone found a hammer and quickly ran out of thumbs.

I am developing a site

Everything that followed that utterance was a bad idea. At that point, you're not using javascript for the portability, light weight OR "scripting". You should have used any "applet" RIA technology out there and you would have been fine; java, flash, silverlight.

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@mahmud - what a useless, unconstructive comment. There's no reason why you can't create rich webs using an Ajax framework - in fact that's the whole reason they exist.

As regards the original question, I'm sorry I can't help. You should try the ExtJS website, they have a vibrant community there.

Neither Flash, Java or Silverlight will work with Selenium either. In fact, it's pretty hard to get any form of automated acceptance testing working with any of the RIA technologies.

A very unuseful comment indeed.

It is a wrong perception that JS needs to be used only for portability, light weight OR "scripting". AJAX frameworks exist for a reason.

The reason being they are far more scalable, modifiable, flexible, compatible and most importantly they have seamless integration with any server side technology. Also the development is possible to break into distinct task and get them outsourced/shared as required.

I am not claiming that other technologies cant do all this but, JS based AJAX frameworks make your life easy.

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