Last week Ajaxian and Burton Group’s Richard Monson-Haefel conducted a survey amongst Ajax developers. It showed that more and more developers are using Ajax frameworks instead of hand-coding Ajax. Although the total number of frameworks has increased, there is a limited number of frameworks that is really popular.
What is astonishing is the nearly complete lack of commercial Ajax frameworks. Backbase has had a lot of success making a comeback after loosing some market share in 2006, but other commercial Ajax frameworks have not been so lucky.