On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Aaron Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > csuwildcat (or would you prefer we call you daniel?), I don't think this is > quite the right attitude to take about jQuery. jQuery has done something > that no one else has: they've made interactive sites something that the > masses can now produce, and that makes the web better. We all borrow and > steal from each other - there's jQuery in MooTools > ($$('a').addEvent('click', fn).setStyles(...).inject(...), etc). and > Prototype in MooTools, and lots of other stuff. So arguing that they are > ripping people off is missing the point (and, btw, I don't think they are). > jQuery makes it possible for non-programmers to get interested in JavaScript > and to make their sites more interesting, and that's a good thing. > If you remember learning your first programming language no doubt you'll > recall what a fun and eye-opening experience it was. You probably don't > still use that language today, but even if you do, you've grown and learned > good practices by now. jQuery is the gateway language for a lot of people. > I'm happy to see so many people playing with JavaScript. It makes our world > more interesting, if you ask me. > At some point, people who come to jQuery who are interested in JavaScript as > a language will go beyond it. They may find MooTools, or Dojo, or Prototype, > or write their own framework. But for many, jQuery will be the reason they > got here in the first place. I do not begrudge them their popularity. In a > way, they are doing work that we have chosen not to: they are exposing newbs > to the power of client side development, which is something that the > MooTools community has never attempted to do and generally suffers through > when we have to. >
good points, I agree with you. Before I used jquery, now I'm using mootools. -- I like python! UliPad <<The Python Editor>>: http://code.google.com/p/ulipad/ UliWeb <<simple web framework>>: http://uliwebproject.appspot.com My Blog: http://hi.baidu.com/limodou
