Hello, I am trying to decide on a JS framework for my website and I am looking at jQuery and prototype. While, I understand there are many philisophical differences between the implementations, it looks like to me one of the big differences are all of the new functions available in prototype.
What I am curious about, is does jQuery have support for these things or in jQuery are you basically expected to use the easy access to DOM objects to create the functionality you need as you go. For example, in prototype, adds these methods to the form element (http://www.prototypejs.org/api/form ): disable enable findFirstElement focusFirstElement getElements getInputs request reset serialize serializeElements Does jQuery have anything similar? In jQuery would you just write these yourself? I can see the benefit of this being that you only include the methods you need and there is no bloat. But I just recently read that you can get a compressed prototype library down to 26k - so isn't that almost the same as jQuery? I guess I am just looking for a reason to use jQuery vs. Prototype and an argument about why I don't need all those (useful?) methods available in prototype? Anyone?
