Matt Kruse schrieb: > I am evaluating jQuery for two purposes: I think one point yet deserves a litte more focus: jQuery's core is small, but it has already a ton of plugins available. Still, it is quite likely that you have some requirement that isn't covered fully by an available plugin. In that case, you can start from scratch (well, with jQuery as basis isn't exactly "scratch") or take a plugin that does parts of what you need, and modify it. The latter is the approach that I used so far for 3 of the 4 plugins I released.
I think this works particuarily well because "writing plugins" is nicely documented (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring), in addition to lots of good example code (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins). Not everyone sticks with the coding styles and patterns presented there, but a lot do. That enables you to quickly understand any plugin you find, and improve it. The authoring guide itself was written by looking at plugin code, checking for common and useful patterns, similar to the way Design Patterns are documented in the Java world, or anywhere else. I haven't seen a community were developers learnd that much from others as jQuery's. The bloody newbies that asked basic questions months or even weeks ago, are now answering complex question themselve. Hope to see some jQuery-powered plugins and sites from you soon :-) -- Jörn Zaefferer http://bassistance.de _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
