The solution is actually relatively simple. If enough people who depend on the software request it, they'll give it more consideration. It's easy to rebuff one person. It's harder to to that to a larger chunk of the user community.
What I would do to start, though, is answer his points directly, like so: "1. jQuery is *considerably* better than Prototype. In fact, many frustrated Prototype users have hacked their own implementations of jQuery's features into Prototype to make up for the fact that Prototype hasn't kept up. 2. jQuery overwrites the $() function in its default configuration, but it is trivial to change the symbol that it uses for its core function to something else, so that it doesn't collide with Prototype. Since jQuery consciously avoids the use of for-in, and doesn't add things to the core object prototypes, if actually doesn't break *any* other js library. Given that it's both easy and harmless to support, I don't see what the hangup is with including it." - Brian > I'm relatively new to jQuery but am excited about using it. I > recently posted a request to have the jQuery library added to the > list of libraries supported natively by VirtualMart, a Joomla > ecommerce component. The author of VirtualMart has rejected the > request: > http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=71&topic=23597.0 > I writing in hope that someone with more experienced and knowledge > about jQuery than I could respond to him. > > Here is a list of Javascript libraries that are supported: > http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_openwiki&Itemid=109&id=tutorials:javascript_libraries > > Thanks, > > Erin _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
