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- phytar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+44About jQuery: jQuery is a JavaScript Library (a set of useful functionality that you can reuse on your web sites) that makes manipulating a web site easy. It includes functionality for modifying pages, doing animations, and performing Ajax requests. It, also, has a plugin architecture for snapping in new functionality. A good introductory post, for more information: http://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/jquery/
Much more information can be found in the tutorials: http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials - RogerH, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25You could do like Digg and use them all at once! I don't think Kevin Rose ever met a JavaScript library he didn't like ;-)
In other news, I need to restart my browser now... - Egoist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24It'll make you say, "Proto-who?"
- TastyLamp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21jQuery is a lot faster.
- bmsterling, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16jQuery: little, yellow, different.
Great work, the best just keeps getting better. - saynotocensors, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14It's generally faster and more importantly much much smaller.
Prototype / scriptaculous packed come in at over 100k. JQuery is about 21k
If you serve it gzipped then it's under 10k.
Not guaranteed but it's also my experience that most of the plugins inherit the small file size philosophy too. - joestump, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Mmmmm ... I (heart) jQuery.
- achoi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11to many, prototype/scriptaculous is more of a 'I'm a hammer and everything looks like a nail' solution. It's nice in lot of ways, but a lot of times overkill for many user's needs.
Jquery is much lighter, and at first glance the prospect of doing anything functional with it looks like too much work, but once you begin to get your script-fu up, you'll realize how much faster you can code with it. Like poster said above, it really is the lightsaber of web development. - tybris, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Except that it's a completely different thing. If they were smart they would have implemented ExtJS using jQuery.
- codmate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10How does this compare to ProtoType / Scriptaculous?
http://www.prototypejs.org/
http://script.aculo.us/ - sunsean, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9jQuery is my new lightsaber for the web.
- TastyLamp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Digg uses it.
- nlogax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Slow? It used to be a bit slow, these days it's definitely not.
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7you know you don't have to comment on every story right?
- Onestone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7jQuery is also more convenient. You write shorter, and more understandable code.
- stockjones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Wow that was fast after 1.1.4. jQuery and crew are my web hero's
- nkm82, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6jQuery is the way that Javascript should be.
- cephelo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41.1.4 and 1.2 were developed as a package intended for close release dates. 1.1.4 is the transition release between 1.1.2 and 1.2, since features were removed and cleaned up. 1.1.4 supports both syntaxes mostly of some of the items removed in 1.2, so code running 1.1.2 can be upgraded with 1.1.4 in preparation for a migration to 1.2. It was a great, simple transition and the speed ups are awesome.
- akkuma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4GWT seems to have been designed for people scared of getting into the real javascript language or want to keep everything contained in one language.
- Ryosen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4$('someId'); // never use getElementById() again
- shiftt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What's the difference between Minified, Packed, and Uncompressed, other than the size?
- icexe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4if you have moderate JS esperience, then you should be able to pick up jQuery and run with in in less than an hour. Its THAT easy to learn.
- trib4lmaniac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Indeed, only 18 days since the previous release. I am impressed.
- scr1msh4w, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3jQuery doesn't need a hasClass function because it's already got something simpler (the "is" method):
if($(this).is(".myclass")) alert("Yup"); - coldskool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Mootools has the most choppy animations out of them all. Not only that, the users on the Mootools forums are a bunch of elitist pricks.
- Dested, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That new animate stuff looks pretty cool. Saves heaps of time.
- stygiansonic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Great set of additions. In particular, offset() from the Dimensions plugin should simplify a lot of on-screen layout tasks.
- caLt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I've tried jQuery on several small projects.. It saved me great time, and the plugins are really cool.
What I'm trying to say is : "Dugg!". - elvisjulep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Boosted you for the Nuprin reference that only older folks and Wayne's World fanatics will get.
- bmsterling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2jQuery has a great community, so any learning curves are lessened.
- dieseltravis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4and script.aculo.what?
- spyk3d, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Indeed it does... maybe now's time to look at migrating from Mootools.
- Ryosen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2you know you could just read the explanation that was posted above 7 hours before your post?
- fLUx1337, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thining of making the move to jQuery, heard alot about it...
/me goes to read - gernblansted, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3That's the unpacked easy to read version. The packed version is about 21k.
- akkuma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I haven't seen how 1.2 stacks up in speed to ExtJS, but last I saw ExtJS was considerably faster than jQuery. Personally, I've worked with prototype, jQuery, and mootools. ExtJS is not a completely different thing. It is a library that focuses on widgets, but contains many of the same ideas like Element and DomQuery.
On top of this, you can use ExtJS with jQuery, Prototype, or YUI. In fact, you initially needed YUI as it was an extension hence Ext, which then was made compatible with jQuery and Prototype. - tybris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This could just blow me off GWT. I'm tired of DOM.getChild(DOM.getElementById('')....
- starkraving, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I love Mootools... don't get me wrong: JQuery is really good too, and had all the features I like in Moo long before, but somehow the implementation in Moo was easier for me to work with on my own apps. That's just me though, and there's a reason that JQuery is getting the rave reviews that it gets, and they're all well-deserved. You can't go wrong with either Mootools or JQuery.
- cjdigg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2goodbye prototype
- kingkilr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2digg also ues prototype.js(prototypejs.org) which is also awesome(I've never used jQuery).
- phytar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Huh? jQuery has had the .is() function for an incredibly long time now. .hasClass() was just added as a convenience for doing .is(".class"). I assume that you didn't actually look at the release notes for 1.2, or the documentation, otherwise you would've seen that.
- aosh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2just the size & how the source code looks. api & functionality are all the same.
Uncompressed - readable code
Minified & Packed - not human readable code - bmsterling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I was starting to think know one would get that!
Stairway to heaven, denied! - aosh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What do you mean by "better"? that would give us a lot more material to respond to/learn from.
- dustedotnet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Unless you're a super human.
- dustedotnet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Been using it since it's original release. ;D
- bmsterling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Is there a difference between mouseenter and hover? Or mouseout and mouseleave? Just curious and maybe something I would work on if there is a difference.
thanks. - fugazied, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Great syntax, has xpath too, very exciting JS library!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1MooTools animations are like silk in everything except ***** Firefox, looks like its Mozillas problem not Moo because Safari, Opera, IE6 IE7 are all fine and fast
- coldskool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"I would agree the mootools fourms are filled with elitist pricks, but I don't mind since I am one"
Congratulations, you're a *****. -
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