We created this to help save us some time in developing our own products and didn’t feel it was fair to keep this work all to ourselves. Inside you’ll find JavaScript implementations for a small subset of the classes provided by the .NET Framework base class libraries.

Fresh Logic Studios Scripts is lightweight, weighing in just over 10KB. Download the library, view examples and documentation @ http://scripts.freshlogicstudios.com/

As for whom frameworks are targeted at? I suppose they are for newbs in a sense, but on the other hand, that’s for whom they are also most dangerous. So in one sense, I would almost say they get developed for the professionals who know how to use them well.

Speaking on behalf of the YUI stuff, we are purposely refraining from calling them a framework – but rather utilities. Also keep in mind no utility is bigger than 2.5k which is amazingly small. I typically like to use the DOM Collection and Event utilities before going into any kind of development since that’s about 4k of code that does a ton of cross-browser heavy lifting for me that I don’t want to have to think about anymore. Not that I need any of these utils, It just pretty much eliminates my common.js at this point.

Frameworks in general serve a good purpose when you look at them pragmatically. So it’s probably safe to say that we can leave it at that. I think I’ve talked about them in far too many other places.