I think this is a very stimulating topic - the responses have given me a lot of insights to the frameworks of which jQuery belongs.
I see there are some big issues here that kind of scare me, the one that stood out to me is the claim that jQurey is not for beginners who don't know the DOM, CSS and JS. I would contend that it is precisely the beginner that jQuery appeals to. Using myself as a test case - I came in knowing a little bit about JS, a bit more about CSS and pretty much nothing about DOM.. I had tried to use JS and CSS to do some fancy interface work and really got stuck in the complexities of JS. Then I found JQ and the world rocked for me. Suddenly I could do amazing things with my GUIs. Sure I had holes in my knowledge bank, and its shown in this mailing list, but I think you will admit this is a pretty impressive interface for a beginner to make: http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Complete_Search_Tab.html I have tons to learn but what a great and fun way to get started! I do think there is one hole in the JQ web site and that is there are not enough real life examples. To that end I am putting together jQuery Cheat Sheet (TM) (C) How To. I plan to make this available for everyone to contibute to. These two How Tos are examples of the format I am proposing to begin with. If anyone has any suggestions would love to hear them. If you have some suggestions for How Tos let me know and I will try and create them. I was thinking of making this into some kind of wiki like system where it would allow poeple to create How Tos that ended up in this standard format when formatted. http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/jQuery_How_Do_I_not.html http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/jQuery_How_Do_I_attr.html The JQ web site and other sites do a great job on explaining the API (even if most of the examples dont show up correclty in IE7) - whats missing is the practical side of the package. Real world non verbose examples of how to use the important features presented in a non trival but lucid manner, with the key concepts listed for indexing as well as the discussion is key to these working. Mitch
