Hi Langdon, > JQuery looks good (powerful). I have not come across it before, so am > on the learning curve. Do you use it instead of Scriptaculous and > Prototype? Oh definitely! I've not touched Prototype/Scriptaculous since somebody mentioned jQuery to me. There is nothing wrong with them, and both of those libraries have brought a lot of good things to the universe, but jQuery is a couple steps above on the evolutionary ladder of JS code.
My own experience was that when I first converted one of my projects from prototype to jQuery, I instantly cut my current JS code in half. This was before I really knew most of what jQuery could do. Now the JS code of this project is probably 1/4th or 1/5th of it's original size. Or to express it with the a quote from a recent discussion on the jQuery mailing list: Dave Methvin wrote: > > "You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of > > tedious DOM Javascript. By the time you are done it's down to two or > > three lines and it couldn't get any shorter unless it read your mind." > Using jQuery has had a hugely positive effect on my JS coding. But more then that, it actually changed my attitude towards the language itself. Before jQuery I thought Javascript was doomed to produce ugly spaghetti code, and even the cool ajax stuff wouldn't change that. Well now I actually really started to like the language and have learned a lot more about it and it's been great fun. Anyway, I just noticed that I sound like one of those technology evangelists who spent more time talking about the technology they love then actually using it. So please go ahead and give jQuery a try, you won't regret it ; ). -- Felix -------------------------- http://www.thinkingphp.org http://www.fg-webdesign.de Langdon Stevenson wrote: > Hi Felix > > JQuery looks good (powerful). I have not come across it before, so am > on the learning curve. Do you use it instead of Scriptaculous and > Prototype? > > Regards, > Langdon > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
