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> To top it off, the documentation was top notch. Serious? That's what drove me away. It might have been top notch academically but for real life use I found i
by jmathai 15y ago
> To top it off, the documentation was top notch.
Serious? That's what drove me away. It might have been top notch academically but for real life use I found it painful to get answers and simple code problems fixed.
- digamber_kamat 15y agoThat is not true. YUI community is pretty vibrant and the developers go out of the way to help you.
- jmathai 15y agoHere's an example. The top hit on Google for "make an ajax request with (YUI|jquery)" the documentation page is the first hit. YUI's page is here, the line of code to make the request is well below the fold. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/connection/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/connection/ JQuery's page has it listed immediately. In fact, 2 variants above the fold. http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/ http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/ I'm not saying one is right and another is wrong. I'm just saying jQuery's gets more adoption. It's easier and people tend to like that. I don't, for example, understand why I have to scroll past the YUI dependency configurator to get to the syntax I'm looking for.
- debacle 15y agoYou're looking at the current version of the documentation. jQuery didn't have nearly as good documentation five years ago, and YUI's was much better than it is today (I think YUI3 is a step back for Yahoo).
- jmathai 15y agoSo jQuery's has gotten better and YUI's has gotten worse? I just know that when I did try it (2009) I felt the same as I do today.