I am not going to take away anything from jquery which is wonderful but...
I think a very large portion of the problem is that when you deliver a system that is at such a low level entry into the framework 'market', you get users with no programming experience trying to produce "interactive pages". The sheer volume of such users and their gross incompetence (not ALL jquery users, of course) means far more cries for help than that of a framework such as mootools, which is aimed at a more intermediate to high level of coders, i.e. people that bother to read the manual or use the mailing lists to help themselves. Take stack overflow, for instance... 28,675 questions on jquery vs 404 on mootools - whichever way you spin it, you cannot say that jquery has x71 times more market share than mootools. as easy as jquery is, if you lack the basics in javascript / dom / html and web programming in general, you need find answers. In other words, I just don't think the search numbers or problems are a fair indication of what is going on in the real world. Also, how often do you see on js forums ppl posting a question like, how do i sort an array in javascript and get an answer "try jquery, it has a good plugin for sorting". It's the plague... Best regards, -- Dimitar Christoff <[email protected]> blog: http://fragged.org/ twitter: http://twitter.com/D_mitar
