Robert Nyman announced that DOMAssistant 2.7 was released today. They have some good competiton from jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, Ext and all the others. Interesting to see that DOMAssistant is the first library to actually take things like Unicode-support seriously. Of course localisation and full unicode support will be added to jQuery and Prototype in some way, either as plugins or in the core. I would like to see developers who actually used DOMAssistant in a live project to share their thoughts on it. Why should someone switch from jQuery?

There is a strong team that works on DOMAssistant, maybe it would have been better to actually add these efforts into a library that has more users in order to build a “standard” library.

In order to choose the correct library for your front end architecture it is crucial that you take aspects such as traffic, security, maintenance and competence into account.