Comments on: jQuery vs. Other Libraries

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:24:45 +0000

Being a non developer, I love JQuery. I started to use it with Ext JS and found the two a great combination. Hats off to both teams for their great contribution.

By: J P

J P — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:33:08 +0000

jQuery made me a believer in javascript again! Actually, it’s the fact that I no longer have to code for NN4 and IE5 on Mac that brought me back. For a few years I was happy to “javascript is evil” and end any discussion at that.

And I do agree that it currently doesn’t have “perfect form”, which is another reason to love it.

By: Asbjørn Ulsberg

Asbjørn Ulsberg — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:09:07 +0000

I’ve made the switch to jQuery too and although I think the documentation could be better and more extensive, Firebug makes everything related to JS development so easy that I manage well without it.

Apropos WordPress, am I the only one who finds its plugin “framework” (or lack thereof) a bit disappointing? There isn’t a good way to ensure only one jQuery file is included, etc. Having a lot of different plugins from a lot of different authors enabled often makes the resulting HTML extremely bloated and incompabilities between plugins are very hard to discover and solve.

By: someguy

someguy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:34:46 +0000

Especially since Prototype/Scriptaculous are so friggin heavy (200K+), the minimal size of jQuery (minified + gzipped ~ 13k) makes a significant difference on heavy-traffic sites (our site gets about 1 mm hits per day).

Needless to say, P+S are out, jQ is in.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:46:33 +0000

Agreed. I recently made the switch, and now I can’t get enough of jQuery.