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Feb 8, 2008, 02:58

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Brilliant! Just what I needed to read to convince myself to start looking into jQuery.

Thanks!

SoulScratch · Feb 8, 2008, 07:01

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archiv...brary_koolaid/

sawmac · Feb 8, 2008, 10:26

http://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/jquery/

Feb 9, 2008, 09:56

It maybe worth mentioning that your first example is not quite equivalent to the jQuery counterpart:

For one, jQuery doesn't check for the existence of required DOM functionality, eg. getElementsByTagName.

The other and more important difference: Assinging your function to window.onload kills anything else bound to that. jQuery queues all event handlers, like load and ready, therefore you can load different scripts that all use jQuery without having one interfere with the others.

Feb 9, 2008, 18:54

jQuery definitely saves me a lot of time. I used it daily on my web 2.0 apps. Try it yourselves, and you'll see the time it saves you makes special web apps

Hammer65 · Feb 11, 2008, 10:53

Webkit native implementations

http://webkit.org/blog/156/querysele...ryselectorall/

cranial-bore · Feb 11, 2008, 16:31

I think jQuery is far superior to Scriptaculous because it's so much easier to spell :)
YUI is also a strong library.

Tyssen · Feb 19, 2008, 15:47

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However, since we'd already decided to include the jQuery library in the page (it's tiny -- about 10kB)

Are you using an old version? The packed version I downloaded earlier this month (1.2.2) is 29Kb.

But I'll agree that I'm becoming a fan just recently. Things I've been using it for recently have been striping table rows, adding a class to external links to add an icon, form validation and sliding content in and out on :hover.

SoulScratch · Feb 19, 2008, 16:10

Doesn't the packed version take longer to load overall? With the uncompression?

Karpie · Feb 19, 2008, 17:30

I'm a big jQuery fan as well. It just makes things a lot easier and a lot simpler for a mostly back-end developer like myself, wh oreally really hates going through all the document.getElementById nonsense (for starters).

Granted, it's the first Javascript framework I've looked at, but I don't see myself going back.

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Feb 8, 2008, 07:01	#2
SoulScratch Guru in training Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,834	http://www.456bereastreet.com/archiv...brary_koolaid/

Feb 8, 2008, 10:26	#3
sawmac SitePoint Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12	http://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/jquery/

Feb 9, 2008, 09:56	#4
Jörn Zaefferer SitePoint Community Guest Posts: n/a	It maybe worth mentioning that your first example is not quite equivalent to the jQuery counterpart: For one, jQuery doesn't check for the existence of required DOM functionality, eg. getElementsByTagName. The other and more important difference: Assinging your function to window.onload kills anything else bound to that. jQuery queues all event handlers, like load and ready, therefore you can load different scripts that all use jQuery without having one interfere with the others.

Feb 9, 2008, 18:54	#5
Fedmich SitePoint Community Guest Posts: n/a	jQuery definitely saves me a lot of time. I used it daily on my web 2.0 apps. Try it yourselves, and you'll see the time it saves you makes special web apps

Feb 11, 2008, 10:53	#6
Hammer65 SitePoint Wizard Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Lincoln Nebraska Posts: 1,136	Webkit native implementations http://webkit.org/blog/156/querysele...ryselectorall/

Feb 11, 2008, 16:31	#7
cranial-bore SitePoint Wizard Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 2,092	I think jQuery is far superior to Scriptaculous because it's so much easier to spell :) YUI is also a strong library.

Feb 19, 2008, 16:10	#9
SoulScratch Guru in training Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,834	Doesn't the packed version take longer to load overall? With the uncompression?

Feb 19, 2008, 17:30	#10
Karpie SitePoint Addict Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 350	I'm a big jQuery fan as well. It just makes things a lot easier and a lot simpler for a mostly back-end developer like myself, wh oreally really hates going through all the document.getElementById nonsense (for starters). Granted, it's the first Javascript framework I've looked at, but I don't see myself going back.