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Looks great. I've admired jQuery from afar since watching John Resig's talk on it a few months ago (links below). One thing I'd love to ask those of you who ha
by mattjaynes 19y ago
Looks great. I've admired jQuery from afar since watching John Resig's talk on it a few months ago (links below).
One thing I'd love to ask those of you who have used both js libraries: Other than the file size difference, what do you see as the main advantages of jQuery over prototype/scriptaculous?
John Resig Part I: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=410472 http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=410472
John Resig Part II: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=412541 http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=412541
- simonw 19y agoFor me it's all down to philosophy. Prototype adds a bunch of global variables and extends loads of built-in ojbects. That's fine, unless you ever want to include code that has a different idea about how any of those extensionss should work (like mooTools, which I also avoid on philosophical grounds). jQuery adds just one global variable (called jQuery) along with a revertible alias (the $ symbol). That pretty much guarantees jQuery will work flawlessly with any other code.
- staticshock 19y agonewer versions of jquery also allow you to clean up the one global variable it adds, afaik, moving it to a location of your choosing. it's very clean.