Is it just me or does anyone else have the hardest time finding plugins on the jquery.com site?
jquery is an awesome library and I do not plan on using anything else anytime soon but the manner in which they catalog plugins on the site is terrible. I know these guys are capable of much better. Ok so you can choose a plugin category but then everything just runs together on that page. The content displayed for each plugin varies wildly depending on how generous the plugin developer was when they added their contribution. The plugin search seems to search through all the pages and their content and the results you get back are pretty vague at times and in many cases you get back duplicates. For example if you search for menu you may get back a bunch of links to pages that have the word menu in them but the page may not be a menu plugin. The Taxonomy is not too bad but I think they should categorize and sub categorize the plugins a little better. A great example of what is needed in the extensions directory at Joomla.com. Even if you just list the plugins more like a product catalog with a link to the main plugin page stuff would be allot easier on the eyes. I know the jquery community has alot of great code to offer but discovering it in the plugins section of jquery.com is quite painful. I am not trying to upset anyone here but jquery and it's plugin directory has outgrown the Drupal/CCK limitations.
