I may just add a criticism. JQuery makes playing with the DOM a piece of cake, but to me, ideally, you'd never have to touch and get your hands dirty with the DOM at all. I wish there was some library that lets you do things in a very abstract way.
A sort of Django-like framework for Javascript! :) On Feb 17, 11:34 am, Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But actually I was hoping someone would come back with an answer like > > "Just use XYZ, it's great and here's why..." > > Ok, I'll give you my very personal opinion then ;) > > I too use JQuery, and pretty much for the same reasons as Dj > Gilcrease's. > > I find JQuery simple and elegant. And most of all, so far I've been > able to do anything I needed, and quite simply. What is also very > important is that it has a very large community of users, which > guarantees to find help and support. > > Plus JQuery UI 1.5 is coming out soon (the alpha version has recently > been released), and will fill the gap in terms of widget palette. > Jquery 1.0 is already out and does a pretty good job already, and > there's an awful lot of plugins available anyway. > > The other library I know a bit is Yahoo UI. I used it a while ago, but > while I admit it has a large palette of widgets and that, since it's > yahoo, you can trust its robustness, but I found it very complicated > to use. Too much code to write! > > Which leads me to another pro for JQuery. If you hate javascript (like > me), then JQuery is for you as it strives to make your code as small > and as simple as possible. > > I haven't tried any other library, I need to say. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
