Comments on: jQuery vs Prototype – WordPress Gone Astray?

By: noris

noris — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:32:55 +0000

Im favour for jQuery too. I think what makes jQuery relevant to current web2.0 ish is the ability for css designer to code advanced java scripting as part of the design not to mention the use of css selector as the jQuery object makes us, designer, a born JS programmer.

Just my two cents.

By: Schein

Schein — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:45:53 +0000

I hear WP is moving away from Prototype and accepting JQuery as their javascript language of choice, going forward. BTW- that nice feature of breadcrumbing at the top of the post when I came from a Google search…is that your creation? Is that a WP plugin? thanks!

By: _ck_

_ck_ — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:19:23 +0000

jQuery is actually nearly 60k, not 20k

If you use the packed version, it has to unpack itself everytime a visitor loads a page off your website, even if it’s cached.

Better to use unpacked version and gzip web compression. Much faster and will cache properly without any additional browser execution/memory overhead.

By: Nader

Nader — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:44:58 +0000

I like JQuery. A day to learn is not that bad at all. But now Mootools is striking back. They have pretty nice features. I wish they all agree in one model and make it easier for us to integrate and build.

By: Ryan Boren

Ryan Boren — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:48:36 +0000

Prototype is only really used for AJAX right now. We’ll probably be switching a lot of stuff to jQuery in 2.2. jQuery is already in trunk. Plugin and theme authors will still be able to request that prototype be loaded via the script loader. We’re not religious about what libraries plugin authors use.

By: Nate Cavanaugh

Nate Cavanaugh — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:07:48 +0000

While I have to agree with you, I would say your example of having to add behaviour.js is completely wrong.

Prototype has a function called $$() which you can use like so:
$$(‘.toggle’)

Prototype is a great conceptual library, and while I think it does a great job of making Javascript look more like Ruby, I think jQuery will succeed in the end because there are more people who know CSS and want to use Javascript, than there are Ruby developers who want to use Javascript.

jQuery brings JS to the (web-dev)masses, whereas Prototype makes Javascript easier for Ruby programmers.

Not to crap on Prototype at all, though. It is a great library, but jQuery is superior, IMHO, and the reasons why I layed out here: http://www.alterform.com/news/prototype-vs-jquery

By: wagthis.com

wagthis.com — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:11:04 +0000

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