Hi,

Jan Hansen wrote:
> [...]
 > Some argue that
> prototype is better when it comes to "dealing with things not directly 
> related to the DOM" - but I cant find any "hard evidence" helping me 
> decide whether to use prototype or jquery. There are, however lots of 
> "soft" arguments that people throw at me to convince me to switch to jQuery:
> 
[...]
 > 2) Better website

Personally I think more important is documentation, and I find 
prototype's docs more useful (if only it contained also native methods 
of extended objects, it would be owsome). Anyway, it's personal and 
not objective.

> 3) More plugins

I think it's rather that all the plugins for jQuery are in one place, 
while many prototype plugins are spread around the web (not all of 
them are submitted to Scripteka.com).

> 4) "Supported by microsoft" (they will now distribute an 
> intellisense-enabled version of jQuery - but not add a single line of 674

> code, right?)

Right now that is true, but Prototype developers work on PDoc inline 
documentation system, which will allow for generation of any other 
format. Then it will be easy to generate proper files to provide 
"support for microsoft intellisense" (or any other web development 
environment if it support external sources of documentation).

> - as a consequence of 4):
> 5) "This will be the future direction as prototype offers no noteable 
> extra functionality that you cant do with jQuery"
> - as a consequence of 4) and 5)

Enumerable mixin. I can't find anything like it in jQuery, and I use 
it very often in our applications (not a public website, but an 
intranet CRM and similar aplications). If you write classes 
representing your data, than it's very very useful. Not to mention 
what help it is with an array.


What notable extra functionality offers jQuery over Prototype then? I 
know little of jQuery, but would like to know what we can/should 
improve ;)

-- 
Regards,
SWilk


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