On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:23:04 +1000, Kit Grose wrote: [...] > > I'm a big fan of JS libraries. I use Prototype (and Script.aculo.us) and YUI > quite a > lot as the basis of a lot of my larger JS-based sites. The advantage of YUI > isn't so > much its ability to maintain strong standards, but its very strong > cross-browser > compatibility (so if you use Yahoo.DOM, you're getting a standard DOM across > every > browser; as with events, etc.). > > Prototype's biggest strength is its ability to keep common functions short > and simple > in your own code files. I can perform complex AJAX throughout a webapp with > maybe three > lines of JS (plenty of PHP, mind you). > > I've never really tried jQuery, because it's been marketed wrong for me. I've > been > using Javascript since ~1998 and have been doing things with it the "old" way > (when > everyone declared their variables on a global scope and functions were all > called on > the onclick, onmouseover events explicitly in code, and when anything fancy > was called > DHTML). I've spent the years since then developing my syntax and thinking to > keep in > line with the industry, and am comfortable with the syntax people have come to > associate with "new" Javascript (Object notation, DOM manipulation, etc.). > jQuery is > marketed as a way to change JS syntax significantly (with a view to greater > speed, > marketed as a sort of Rails on the client side), which would mean a massive > change for > someone who already has four different programming/ scripting languages to > flick > between on a daily basis (not counting HTML and CSS syntax). I've heard only > good > things from people starting out with JS though. >
Just chiming in here to say that I think all of Kit's comments are right "on the money". I was initially very attracted to jQuery because I am much more familiar with CSS syntax than JavaScript/ECMAScript. However, using it does not make me a better scripter, while YUI simply gives me cross-browser routines where I need them, so I can make better choices of technique as I learn the language. Protoype etc. I have yet to learn, but I understand the same thing is true. Cordially, David -- ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
