Thank you to everyone for all your responses. I have indeed decided to go
with jQuery as a base for future work, so I also plan to contribute to the
project with my own plugins, etc.
I like the summary of jQuery that has been expressed like this:
$('selectSomething').doSomething()
It seems that the library has heavy emphasis on the selectSomething in its
core, and depends a lot on plugins for the doSomething part. I can forsee
writing my own "jQuery++" or whatever that adds a lot more functionality
that I consider to be "core" rather than depending on multiple plugins.
Is there a better official form plugin? The one listed is weak for basic
form functions, so I plan to adapt my own form functions into jQuery style
and make it a plugin. I can't live without isChanged() on form fields!
I really don't like the idea of forking jQuery, but I'd much rather have
less selectSomething logic and more doSomething logic, so maybe at some
point I'll prepare a version of about the same size (or bigger) with
emphasis on the opposite end. Or maybe not. jQuery does things about 80% the
way I would do it myself, so I guess I have to sacrifice the 20% and do
things the jQuery way. I need to write a blog entry titled "How I Learned To
Stop Worrying And Love The jQuery"!
I also plan to adapt my table sort/filter/autofiler/page/stripe/etc
functions into a plugin. The existing table sorter seems to do the job, but
I like to have all my table functionality in one place, and I think I handle
it a little faster and more robustly in my code, so look for that at some
point if you're interested.
I've found a version of a "Cheat Sheet" but it's not nearly as cool as the
latest Prototype cheat sheet. I was hoping to find a cool color printable
sheet to hang on my wall as a reference. The API is great, but a bit too
long-winded to hang on a wall ;)
Thanks again,
Matt
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