-- Yehuda
On 9/27/06, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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! :-)
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