[Proto-Scripty] future of script.aculo.us

2011-03-19 Thread Ali.MD
Hi every1 I'm teacher of NIIT university and teach web technology in our web department I want to change and update some our courses For example in section of javascript framework We usually recommend jquery because its easy to learn. But i thing Prototype script.aculo.us are better in core and

Re: [Proto-Scripty] future of script.aculo.us

2011-03-19 Thread yuval dagan
Hi Although I used and will use prototype, It looks (to me) currently like JQuery is much more popular than prototype I say stick to JQuery but let them know about other frameworks. But thats only my opinion Yuval On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Ali.MD alimihando...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

[Proto-Scripty] Re: future of script.aculo.us

2011-03-19 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, I find that either/or choices tend to be false choices. Not always, but frequently enough that I've taught myself to stop and ask whether it's really either/or. (Especially since my brain tends to default that way -- either/or, black/white, right/wrong -- and so I have to keep reminding

[Proto-Scripty] Re: future of script.aculo.us

2011-03-19 Thread P.J.
I agree with T.J. We shouldn't be simply teaching just how to use a certain tool but when to use them. And then learning JavaScript as a language rather than merely being exposed to it via libraries is beneficial because then your students will understand what the libraries are doing. I think this

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Prototype and jQuery

2011-03-19 Thread P.J.
When using $.noConflict(); you need to load Prototype before loading jQuery. The script tag for Prototype literally needs to be above the script tag for jQuery. When using noConflict I find the most useful way of separating the two libraries logically is to assign jQuery a new name. For

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Prototype and jQuery

2011-03-19 Thread T.J. Crowder
On Mar 19, 8:17 pm, P.J. pjfontil...@gmail.com wrote: When using $.noConflict(); you need to load Prototype before loading jQuery. The script tag for Prototype literally needs to be above the script tag for jQuery. No, you don't. The order doesn't matter, as long as if you load jQuery first,

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Prototype and jQuery

2011-03-19 Thread P.J.
On Mar 19, 3:53 pm, T.J. Crowder t...@crowdersoftware.com wrote: No, you don't. The order doesn't matter, as long as if you load jQuery first, you make the `noConflict` before you load Prototype, e.g.:     script src='jquery.js'/script     scriptjQuery.noConflict();/script     script