Annotator vs. Emotion vs. Leaflet vs. SpreadJS Comparison Chart

Annotator is an open source JavaScript library to easily add annotation functionality to any webpage. Annotations can have comments, tags, links, users, and more. Annotator is designed for easy extensibility so it's a cinch to add a new feature or behaviour. Annotator also fosters an active developer community with contributors from four continents, building 3rd party plugins allowing the annotation of PDFs, EPUBs, videos, images, sound, and more. Adding an annotation to any website is easy with Annotator. First, download the Annotator library, and include it in your HTML. Annotator has a simple but powerful plugin architecture. Plug-ins can also be included for adding functionality such as user permissions, tags, filtering, and formatting. More than a dozen projects rely on Annotator for their digital annotation needs and many are open source. Share text and video annotations using social networks or email.

Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it has all the mapping features most developers ever need. Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance, and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins, has a beautiful, easy-to-use, and well-documented API, and a simple, readable source code that is a joy to contribute to. Leaflet doesn't try to do everything for everyone. Instead, it focuses on making the basic things work perfectly. Hardware acceleration on mobile makes it feel as smooth as native apps. Utilizing CSS3 features to make panning and zooming really smooth. Smart polyline/polygon rendering with dynamic clipping and simplification makes it very fast. The modular build system for leaving out features you don't need. Tap delay elimination on mobile.