Friday, August 25th, 2006
Framework Disagreement: JQuery: (Mis)leading the Pack
Category: JavaScript
, Library, Prototype
Justin Palmer has taken issue to some of the statements made by jQuery and writes JQuery: (Mis)leading the Pack as a retort of sorts to “Why JQuery’s Philosophy is Better”.
He makes some good points about:
- DOM Insertion
- Chainability
- CSS Selectors/Xpath
- Plugin Development
- Automatic Looping
- Ajax Updating
- Adding a class to an element
- Adding a class to a group of elements
A pretty honest and inclusive set of comments (not a “they suck, we rule” type post).
3.9 rating from 39 votes
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