jQuery is really good because, unlike some other frameworks, it doesn't lock you into its little world. You're still coding in javascript, and jQuery is just a really handy set of functions to help you out with just the really frustrating parts.
It's really important to use a framework nowadays because of the vast gulf there is in the behavior between the different browsers. Frameworks eliminate hours of debugging by presenting just a single simple interface to do many common tasks, that someone else has already debugged to work cross browser. In my opinion, it should be difficult to argue AGAINST using a framework, simply because frameworks save so much time - and time is money! What are the arguments against using a framework? If there's something about "frameworks' that just rubs your colleagues the wrong way, perhaps look into base2.js, IE7.js and IE8.js by Dean Edwards. They're basically implementations of the standard w3c dom interfaces, such that if a browser doesn't support the standard correctly, his framework fills in the gap. With that, there's no visible signs of a "framework", just a consistant cross browser dom api. That's the basic principle anyway. I haven't tried it, myself, so I can't tell you how well it really works. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:09 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been trying to convince people here at work to use JQuery for UI, but > most are reluctant, because it's a framework. > Any good arguments of Why it is still OK to use JQuery? > > > Anya V. Gerasimchuk > Web Designer, IT - Web Shared Services > UNIFI Information Technology > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (513) 595 -2391 > > > Aubrey Morrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 09/18/2008 12:04 PM > > Please respond to > wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > To > wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > cc > Subject > Re: [WSG] Learning Javascript properly > > > > > Simon, > > Get into jQuery man. Plain old javascript just doesn't cut it. Best > library I have used. > Bit of a learning curve but well worth getting your head around. > > Have fun: http://jquery.com/ > > Regards > > Aubrey > > > > > Simon wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I really want to get stuck in and learn Javascript properly, and by this I >> mean not filling my page with onclick and sending hrefs to #. But instead >> abstracting it all into the .js file and keeping my markup clean. >> >> I've followed the book by Jeremy Keith called DOM Scripting which teaches >> just that but it only goes so far. Everywhere else I look seems to have >> all >> the old school techniques which I want to shy away from. >> >> Does anyone have any resources? >> >> Thanks so much >> Simon >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ******************************************************************* >> >> >> > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *******************************************************************[attachment > "aubrey.vcf" deleted by Anya Gerasimchuk/UnionCentral] > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
