On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:49:13PM -0700, Andrew Dupont wrote: > On Sep 27, 5:35?pm, Gregory Seidman <gsslist > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And yet, this is a problem. Prototype should strive to be as good as > > jQuery in terms of convenience for non-programmers. It isn't even > > difficult. A good part of the simplicity of jQuery comes from the $() > > function returning a "set" object that has a number of convenience > > methods for attaching event handlers, hiding and showing, etc. to all > > of the returned elements. I suspect that it would take very little to > > implement the same methods and attach them to the array returned by > > Prototype's $$() function. I'm going to work on it today. > > I agree that we should probably have a custom type for HTML result > sets, but I don't subscribe to the axiom that we should necessarily > appeal to non-programmers. Obviously we try to make things intuitive, > but our definition of "intuitive" tends to mean "fills in blanks in > the DOM API" or "behaves like it does in Ruby." > > Part of why jQuery is so popular is that it's insular and internally > consistent, but intentionally doesn't aim to "blend in" like we do. So > it appeals to web designers who are just getting into browser-based JS > and don't have existing mental templates for how these things should > be structured. > > In other words, I we should make Prototype as simple as possible given > the design choices we've made. But we shouldn't try to out-jQuery > jQuery.
Actually, I'm not sure it matters now. See here: http://jquery.com/blog/2008/09/28/jquery-microsoft-nokia/ Looks to me like jQuery has gained enough momentum that my time is better spent porting the Prototype functionality I want and need to jQuery. That makes me really unhappy, but that's how it seems to have turned out. > Cheers, > Andrew --Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
