Great question, Sam! Yehuda, what do you think about collecting a bunch of these responses and publishing them in Visual jQuery Magazine Issue 2?
I found out about jQuery in May when I searched on "lightbox" and stumbled upon Thickbox. I followed the link trail to jquery.com and was immediately sold on it for a couple reasons: 1. As a CSS developer, I understood the DOM traversal methods right away. Prototype/Scriptaculous, on the other hand, was confusing to me at first pass. 2. I had just finished going through Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting book, which convinced me of the merits of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, and especially the need for separation of behavior and content. The Prototype/Scriptaculous code i had seen had all sorts of event handlers, etc. right in there with the markup, and getting it out required yet another javascript file (behaviour.js). jQuery's event triggers made total sense to me and allowed me to keep my HTML markup clean. 3. Two words: file size. And this is why I've stuck with jQuery, and will continue to do so: 1. It keeps getting better and better. 2. The plugins keep rolling in. 3. The community is amazing! 4. I still have a LOT to learn. <shameless_plug>see my blog, http:// www.learningjquery.com </shameless_plug> Cheers, Karl P.S. On Sep 26, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Jörn Zaefferer wrote: > How on earth could possibly someone running a site named > 'englishrules' > not be a grammar nazi? > > -- Jörn Ah, you caught me! :-) ___________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
