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Hi Langdon,

JQuery looks good (powerful).  I have not come across it before, so am 
on the learning curve.  Do you use it instead of Scriptaculous and 
Prototype?

Oh definitely! I've not touched Prototype/Scriptaculous since somebody mentioned jQuery to me. There is nothing wrong with them, and both of those libraries have brought a lot of good things to the universe, but jQuery is a couple steps above on the evolutionary ladder of JS code.

My own experience was that when I first converted one of my projects from prototype to jQuery, I instantly cut my current JS code in half. This was before I really knew most of what jQuery could do. Now the JS code of this project is probably 1/4th or 1/5th of it's original size.

Or to express it with the a quote from a recent discussion on the jQuery mailing list:

Dave Methvin wrote:

> "You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of 
> tedious DOM Javascript. By the time you are done it's down to two or 
> three lines and it couldn't get any shorter unless it read your mind."  
  

Using jQuery has had a hugely positive effect on my JS coding. But more then that, it actually changed my attitude towards the language itself. Before jQuery I thought Javascript was doomed to produce ugly spaghetti code, and even the cool ajax stuff wouldn't change that. Well now I actually really started to like the language and have learned a lot more about it and it's been great fun.

Anyway, I just noticed that I sound like one of those technology evangelists who spent more time talking about the technology they love then actually using it. So please go ahead and give jQuery a try, you won't regret it ; ).

-- Felix


Langdon Stevenson wrote:

Hi Felix

JQuery looks good (powerful).  I have not come across it before, so am 
on the learning curve.  Do you use it instead of Scriptaculous and 
Prototype?

Regards,
Langdon



  

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