I can tell you my experience, perhaps others have had a similar ones. I tried jquery and found that I liked its ability to chain a lot. It toggles more powerfully than prototype. I also like the fact that I only need one reference for plenty of effects -- as many as I'll ever care about.Jquery does have some really aggravating aspects. In a couple of instances I have been able to find an element with plain old javascript that defied jquery and I'm still figuring out how to manage its events.
Beyond a nice scrollbar, which is only a couple of hundred bytes, I haven't explored JQuery's plugins, because I like to make my own stuff. Additionally, because I plan to do freelance asp.net and javascript work when I retire (soon), I decided that because JQuery is so much more prevalent and because Microsoft is beginning to facilitate using it, that's what I should spend time learning. Jane On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com>wrote: > Sorry for the rant, but I came to Prototype by way of early exploration > with Rails. I found Prototype approachable and learn-able in a way that I > didn't (and don't) find jQuery to be. > > I've invested years in learning Prototype and it has trained and patterned > my JavaScript brain. I'm quite cheesed about the notion of having to learn > another way to look at JavaScript. > > At the same time, I can't help but notice the <crickets> around here > lately. When I joined this list (back in the rails-spinoff days) there were > dozens of posts per day, now we're lucky to get there in a week. > > What the heck is going on here? > > Walter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To post to this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
