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Add to SafariWhen comparing SmartClient vs jQuery 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 jQuery UI is ranked 10th. 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 Cross-browser compatibility
jQuery UI, like jQuery has great cross-browser and backward compatibility with the most popular browsers on the market.
Pro Globalization support
jQuery UI has internationalization (globalization) support.
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 Slow development
jQuery UI development is rather slow and new features or components are not released frequently.
