SeaTurtle is a pure-JavaScript MVC framework that sits atop jQuery, with a design heavily inspired by Cocoa and Ruby.
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- OOP framework with support for inheritance, overriding methods, properties/attributes, destructors (via Objective-C-like reference counting)
- MVC framework - models manage data, controllers manage models and views, and views manage DOM elements
- Triggered events for objects (not just DOM elements)
- Helper functions to create DOM elements without using innerHTML
- Minimal global namespace pollution - includes "ST" utility class, and all built-in classes start with ST. Does not alter any native objects.
- Piles of useful built in classes, including:
- TableView - Table/Tree view
- Array - wrapper over native Array with extra features
- IndexedArray - Array that maintains indexing and linked list between contained objects
- AutoField - Sophisticated autocompletion text field
- Form - View that provides a form to edit arbitrary data
- TabController - Tabbed management of View Controllers