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Dude, it's just a javascript library. And a pretty damn good one. I think you guys might be a little too uptight..

mechanical_fish 18y ago
Seriously. I'm getting far more than my money's worth from jQuery; they can be as silly as they like. If you desperately want a jQuery site that looks like Oracle.com, or Jacob Nielsen's site, or whatever, ask John Resig for permission to mirror the content and then reskin the thing.
shabda 18y ago
Try telling that to clients! > And a pretty damn good one. And thats why I want to use it, and would hate to use say, prototype, just because the clients thought Jquery was immature.
- invisible 18y ago
  > [I] would hate to use say, prototype Haha? Joke, right?
eznet 18y ago
I agree.. Really, what is the harm with a little light hearted marketing and branding? I guess to appease the technical crowd, they should have the technical specs and full API docs on the front page...
hbien 18y ago
I owe the guys behind jQuery a lot, they've saved me so much time by preventing cross browser issues (eg. they saved me a lot of debugging time in IE). Not to mention it's actually fun to work with.
jmtame 18y ago
What about taking the Code Igniter approach of "in your face." Their banner reads: CodeIgniter is an Open Source Web Application Framework that helps you write kick-ass PHP programs." How about something like that? Aggressive, confident, in your face, and it's not too silly. Just direct and to the point. "jQuery is an Open Source JavaScript Library that helps you write kick-ass web applications." Then again, if anyone revives the term "___ rock star" it would probably be the jQuery team. They have done some uber amazing work on this library.
river_styx 18y ago
No, it's just that this design is lame and obnoxious. Look at Why's (Poinant) Guide to Ruby (http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ http://poignantguide.net/ruby/). That's an example of a design that's kinda wacky and out there, but also good.

Seriously. I'm getting far more than my money's worth from jQuery; they can be as silly as they like. If you desperately want a jQuery site that looks like Oracle.com, or Jacob Nielsen's site, or whatever, ask John Resig for permission to mirror the content and then reskin the thing.

shabda 18y ago

Try telling that to clients! > And a pretty damn good one. And thats why I want to use it, and would hate to use say, prototype, just because the clients thought Jquery was immature.

invisible 18y ago
> [I] would hate to use say, prototype Haha? Joke, right?

eznet 18y ago

I agree.. Really, what is the harm with a little light hearted marketing and branding? I guess to appease the technical crowd, they should have the technical specs and full API docs on the front page...

hbien 18y ago

I owe the guys behind jQuery a lot, they've saved me so much time by preventing cross browser issues (eg. they saved me a lot of debugging time in IE). Not to mention it's actually fun to work with.

jmtame 18y ago

What about taking the Code Igniter approach of "in your face." Their banner reads: CodeIgniter is an Open Source Web Application Framework that helps you write kick-ass PHP programs." How about something like that? Aggressive, confident, in your face, and it's not too silly. Just direct and to the point. "jQuery is an Open Source JavaScript Library that helps you write kick-ass web applications." Then again, if anyone revives the term "___ rock star" it would probably be the jQuery team. They have done some uber amazing work on this library.

river_styx 18y ago

No, it's just that this design is lame and obnoxious. Look at Why's (Poinant) Guide to Ruby (http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ http://poignantguide.net/ruby/). That's an example of a design that's kinda wacky and out there, but also good.