When comparing SmartClient vs Zino UI, the Slant community recommends SmartClient for most people. In the question“What are the best Javascript UI Widget Toolkits?” SmartClient is ranked 8th while Zino UI is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose SmartClient is:
There is an online showcase and a 100+ Getting Started guide
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Pros
Pro Good documentation
There is an online showcase and a 100+ Getting Started guide
Pro Advanced UI widgets
Layouts, grids, forms with a lot of builtin functionality.
Pro Has fallbacks for unsupported HTML5 features
Although Zino supports all modern HTML5 features, it also has graceful fallbacks in case a user is using a browser that does not support those features.
Pro Compliant with web standards
Zino adopts various w3c conventions such as WAI-ARIA, SVG, and HTML5 Canvas.
Pro PHP Server wrappers
ZinoUI can be easily integrated with any PHP framework or document through the PHP wrappers that it provides.
Cons
Con Expense: Free LGPL version but expensive to leverage the real power of the framework
The Developer version starts at $745 / Developer
Con Difficult to integrate with other frameworks like React, Vue, Angular...
SmartClient has it's own layout mechanism and doesn't have anything like Kendo UI's framework support for Angular, React, Vue, ..
Con No theme support
Zino UI provides developers with four themes out of the box. But if a developer wants to create their own custom theme, Zino does not have a theme builder.
