I was in the process of trying to choose a route for my Ajax development and had narrowed down my choices to what I called "The Big Three"; Prototype/Scriptaculous, Dojo & Mochikit. I read a ton about these libs and did the tutorials as anyone would.
Along the way, I kept hearing references to JQuery and decided to check it out. So in early September, I signed up for the JQuery mailing list and "listened in" on what was happening in the community. I asked a ton of questions & got some great responses. What I found was a great community with a solid core group and a great direction. So I took the plunge and went through the tutorials and realized how powerful JQuery is. I have to say that I really like the fact that the core group, especially John, is very involved in the community. It truly lends a sense of confidence that the project is alive and that JQuery is a viable solution to RIA development. Rey... >>I've used it since at least January 2005 (at least that was the first >>time I emailed John about a bug when he was first working on it), but >>not as much as I do now. >> >>I first found out about his coding skills when following the addEvent >>coding contest (QuirksBlog - >>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/coding_techniques/contest/index.html) >>- which he won of course. Incidentally, jQuery doesn't use his winning >>code, but Dean Edwards' code (with a few modifications) and doesn't >>even use the W3c (or Microsoft's) method of adding events. >> >>You could still select elements by a CSS expression and do basic >>manipulation on the results (filtering, toggling, adding class names, >>adding content etc), and attach (but not execute) events as well as >>create plugins. It was also under an 'Attribution, Share Alike >>License' and contained no indication of SVN revision (it may not have >>even been under source control for all I know). >> >>It is bigger and better since then and from a glance over the source, >>pretty much a rewrite too. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>jQuery mailing list >>discuss@jquery.com >>http://jquery.com/discuss/ >> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
