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I'm a big fan if jQuery and haven't used Ext. However this post does nothing to convince me to switch. It really seems all of the authors points boil down to "I
by geuis 18y ago
I'm a big fan if jQuery and haven't used Ext. However this post does nothing to convince me to switch. It really seems all of the authors points boil down to "I think they're both tied, but Ext is better because I like it."
jQuery makes writing javascript much simpler. By this, I mean that it let's me write code to do what I want and not to get bogged down in the pecular aspects of the framework language. I have recently tried YUI and completely hated it for this reason. No consistency or simplicity to the framework. Doesn't help me build products faster.
- intranation 18y agoAgreed. Most of the "points" were either personal taste, or jQuery won but it was called a tie because of "negligible difference" (for example - the fact that jQuery core is 30% smaller than ExtJS, but it's "only 19Kb"). Or ExtJS's ostensibly "more powerful DOM manipulators", which actually fail to be demonstrated in the article. Very poor article.
- TimSporcic 18y agoSo sorry for having a personal opinion on my personal blog :-) 19K has never mattered to me compared to all the rest of the stuff that ends up getting pulled down. Since both are base libraries, I have always ended up including more. I explicitly kept this comparison to their overlap. I'll be doing another post covering the areas where Ext Core excels. Both libraries are very good and you can't go wrong with either, but I do prefer Ext Core.