> I think we should be very careful about be negative about > JavaScript, after all it is the language we are working in.
It's a pretty good language, too. > My line was meant more to reflect that fact the programming > cross browser DOM stuff in JavaScript is really painful and > not fun. jQuery has made it fun! Sure there are lots of other > libraries that support cross browser scripting, but they tend > to be more obtrusive, heavy handed and in your face. > jQuery lets you focus on what you need to do. Agreed, it's the DOM bindings that make web programming so tedious. By wrapping them in jQuery it becomes a lot less painful and a whole lot shorter. Read Paul Graham's essay "Succinctness is Power" and you would swear he wrote it with jQuery in mind. http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html Maybe that should be the focus of the slogan, something like these: jQuery: Write less and do more jQuery: Say no more (for Monty Python fans) jQuery: Web programming, short and sweet _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
