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I don't understand why they (Josh Peek) didn't base it on jQuery in the first place. Prototype is like 128K vs 15K of jQuery.
by jrnkntl 18y ago
I don't understand why they (Josh Peek) didn't base it on jQuery in the first place. Prototype is like 128K vs 15K of jQuery.
- jonknee 18y agoThe Rails crew has a chubby for Prototype.
- boucher 18y agoBecause the creator of Prototype works at 37 Signals.
- snorkel 18y agoMaybe and maybe not. Prototype has some features built-in that jQuery implements as plugins. Personally I prefer jQuery + plugins.
- irrelative 18y agojQuery is 15k when zipped. The minified version before gzip is closer to 55 k. Prototype, when zipped, is 22 k -- just checked on a server I'm running. They're closer than you think :) *edit - that's for version 1.51... 1.6 when minified and gzipped by web server is 23 kb. Not a huge difference, but you get the point.