>>
> Well yes. Generally speaking this among the things where the framework
> is extending the language.
> Chaining seemed to be one of the aspects of jquery that peoples seemed
> like the most, but I did not found
> a lot of literature about it. What is or is not possible in a chain ?
> how to optimize it ? When is the 'e' param in "blabla(function(e){"
> necessary ?
> Documentation is great, but is kinda like an encyclopedia, I does not
> really explain the logic.
> As any framework jquery builds complex data structures in a snap, and
> provides useful methods to handle it.
> As an intermediate developer I had no problem coding rollovers before
> jquery, so even if the code is neater with jquery,
> that's not the point of my choice of it. I believe I'll have a wahoo!
> effect with any frameworks because I can code in 3 lines some stuffs
> that move but the issue to me is more about how to code in 50 lines what
> would have taken 500.
> I KNOW jquery can do it, but if I run into "weird" issues, I also know
> it may be more difficult than normal coding because
> I'll understand less what is happening under the hood of jquery than
> what is in my code.
> I am promoting jquery to a co-worker who has written a big Prototype
> based application. I could not explain him exactly
> what was the type of the data he was handling, nor how to do a closure
> to avoid conflict with prototype (what I saw in your? tooltip). It seems
> little code to do, but... in my company we cannot spent 3-4 hours
> understanding something, time needs to be justified, so he made it old
> school quick and dirty.
> I am a php/javascript coder and used to care little about typing. What I
> see with frameworks (cakephp for php and jquery for js) is that they
> lead me to manipulate more complex data structures where type become
> really important.
> Am I going off topic ?
>
> So to sum up:
> jquery objects - chaining - closures
>
> That's the stuffs I wanna to master in order to claim that I really feel
> confident with jquery.
>
> Now let's go back to your article...
>
> olivvv
>
Talking of this and what is needed for getjquery.org I just read an
interesting article about what a JS library should provide:
http://www.webstandards.org/2006/12/12/reducing-the-pain-of-adopting-a-javascript-library/
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