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jQuery UI vs WebGL: What are the differences?
jQuery UI: Curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice; WebGL: A JavaScript API for rendering 3D graphics within any compatible web browser. It is integrated completely into all the web standards of the browser allowing GPU accelerated usage of physics and image processing and effects as part of the web page canvas. Its elements can be mixed with other HTML elements.
jQuery UI and WebGL can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
jQuery UI is an open source tool with 10.7K GitHub stars and 5.09K GitHub forks. Here's a link to jQuery UI's open source repository on GitHub.
Typeform, PedidosYa, and Buffer are some of the popular companies that use jQuery UI, whereas WebGL is used by PlayCanvas, Lucid Software, and Remix. jQuery UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2316 company stacks & 3416 developers stacks; compared to WebGL, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of jQuery UI
- Ui components215
- Cross-browser156
- Easy121
- It's jquery100
- Open source81
- Widgets57
- Plugins48
- Popular46
- Datepicker39
- Great community23
- DOM Manipulation7
- Themes6
- Some good ui components0
Pros of WebGL
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Cons of jQuery UI
- Does not contain charts or graphs1