Comments on: jQuery Magazine Started

By: optimus paul

optimus paul — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:06:26 +0000

I’ve just started using jQuery… and I’ve got to say it looks very promising. I’ve been mostly using Prototype, but it’s a little bloated. DOJO is a non-starter, it’s huge, buggy and needs more than documentation… but I have gotten some good ideas for making things work from DOJO, they know what they are doing there, but someone needs to put some scope around that project.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:12:38 +0000

What? No YUI? Why?

By: h4ckm3

h4ckm3 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:59:42 +0000

jquery….simply works, no fuss…no bloat!

By: Ron Derksen

Ron Derksen — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:35:49 +0000

Again jQuery makes a subtle stab at the other frameworks/libraries/toolkits, displaying them as big, extinct or plain weird. I personally don’t like this attitude, even it’s meant as a friendly jibe.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:16:35 +0000

jQuery is a red-headed, poisonous Amanita Muscaria mushroom, which people use for its hallucinogenic effect? ;-)

By: Rob Sanheim

Rob Sanheim — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:26:29 +0000

Michael: In fairness, the jquery category was added only recently, so we do have more posts discussing jquery then that breakdown really shows.

By: joern

joern — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:20:46 +0000

It’s great to read what you guys can interprete from this small illustration. Thanks!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:47:45 +0000

Left-hand pane on Ajaxian kind of says it all.
Topics
Dojo (65)
jQuery (1)
Prototype (83)

By: Jesse Kuhnert

Jesse Kuhnert — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:04 +0000

You’re right, maybe that’s why the elephant looks sad!

He’s like “hey, ajaxian..? Not only did you go out of your lane but you apparently also dropped some napalm on the ground while doing it. And how does this cake character have access to such highly flammable material anyways? ” I’m sure that’s what he’s thinking now..Either that or all of the animal characters are just very hungry and anticipating how yummy it will be to eat the jquery cake once they get to the finish line – oblivious to the fact that there is a race at all. I would think in that instance the smile on the cake is naively optimistic. More than likely the safer route would be to continue running as to avoid being eaten.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:31:16 +0000

Sorry JQuery…. you’re disqualified for not staying in your own lane. :)

By: Jesse Kuhnert

Jesse Kuhnert — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:50:03 +0000

Even though I can’t officially like the drawing, I can’t help but smirk a little bit at how they made the elephant look so sad.. Bastards! ;)

By: Matt Oakes

Matt Oakes — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:38:08 +0000

I used to use Prototype mainly for javascript stuff but after using jQuery for just 1 hour I was sold on it for good. Its just so easy to use and is FULLY DOCUMENTED!!!!!

By: Dylan Schiemann

Dylan Schiemann — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:36:27 +0000

Per the drwaing, I get the impression that they feel that prototype is extinct but lean, Dojo is alive and bloated, MochiKit is an unidentified lean animal with a big head, and jQuery is once again standing alone, trying to isolate itself from the rest of the JS community. It’s kind of amusing.

As if we needed more inspiration to make our toolkits even better.

As for our documentation, Dojo 0.4, coming in October, is going to answer the documentation criticism.

By: Yehuda Katz

Yehuda Katz — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:09:14 +0000

Mortimer: When you say you’ve tried the online dev community magazine road, what do you mean? Did you try doing what we’re doing at jQuery?

By: mortimer

mortimer — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:02:33 +0000

Ho cool, I wonder how it will go. Having already tried the online dev community magazine road, I know it’s can be difficult to get enough content.

By the way, a french site about jquery has been started by the spip.net community:
http://www.jquery.info