I feel exactly like you, but I guess there'll always be some prototypejs diehards (like me!). I tried out a little of JQuery and frankly didn't like it in spite of it's... um... sex appeal. I also went on to investigate other APIs like UIze, etc. Again I think they all might have some good qualities and features, ... but I don't see why anyone can't do the same stuff with PrototypeJS... so I am going to stick to it... and hopefully soon port my old stuff to the latest version, 1.7 that is, which includes some more convenient stuff for which one had to write a bit of code before... advance measurement of layers have been included now and this is very useful, Previously I had to create my own hidden layer cached, load the data, apply visual styling to the data and then obtain the measurement before displaying the layer. Now that's all covered in one or two new API functions which is good...
One of the things I like about PrototypeJS is the way you write it, the semantics, that is. I don't know why but there are certain languages and scripts I can take to because I like the way you can write them, and certain others I would hate to see in any part of my code. The classic example for me is VBScript and JS. When I first began to web dev around mid-nineties, these scripts came my way as options... and somehow I did not like VBScript at all,... even to this day. And anyway, it's dead, fortunately. It's a bad feeling you get, especially in the lower abdomen when you suspect that something, some tool or language you have used for years and is good with is no longer going to be around or becomes obsolete. However, my luck has been good. JavaScript has only become better and now we have this OO style APIs. CSS too, and server side PHP is definitely doing well, never mind the new stuff like RoR. I think I made a good choice and ignored ASP altogether, even JSP and CF... and I don't regret it. -- 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 prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
