Comments on: jQuery Roundup: Rails, WordPress, and new plugins

By: spellathon

spellathon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:14:06 +0000

jQuery still needs to cover a lot of way into WordPress, a newbie wordpress webmaster is not that comfortable with jQuery.

By: sportshop

sportshop — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:25:25 +0000

I think it is the right way for wordpress. WordPress need more ajax plugins

By: JobsEmployment

JobsEmployment — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:27:20 +0000

“Rails, WordPress, and new plugins” is just another variation of link bating to get readers and links to your site.

It is just like adding JobsEmployment at http://www.jobsemployment.org/
to get links.

Tsk, tsk !!

By: zhsu

zhsu — Tue, 29 May 2007 07:36:08 +0000

can’t run on ff+windows or ie+windows?

====================:::::::firebug error report
AppleInfoButton is not defined
[Break on this error] flipElement.object = new AppleInfoButton(flipElement, document.getElementById(…
InfoButton.js (line 25)
widget is not defined
[Break on this error] jVer = widget.preferenceForKey(‘useVersion’) || ’1.1.2′;
script.js (line 41)

By: jack

jack — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:46:22 +0000

Prototype 1.5.1 is 15kb compressed. A ton? Grow up and learn to compress like the big boys: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast
http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core/files

By: Tim Cooijmans

Tim Cooijmans — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:23:03 +0000

It doesn’t weigh a whole lot more than jQuery does. And I’d also like to say that it doesn’t matter.

By: nea

nea — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:29:09 +0000

Yea, but prototype still weights a ton.

By: kourge

kourge — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:00:03 +0000

Whenever I see the old arguments on why Prototype is bad, I feel like vomiting blood. Most of the arguments are not true now, such as modifying the for..in loop (and if your code is broke because of this, then it means your code uses ugly hacks anyway), lacking documentation (there are tons of docs now), and et cetera.

There’s nothing to stop people from blindly including one library or another to follow a buzz. One can equally misuse jQuery if all they want is just remote Ajax loading.

By: Crit

Crit — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:53:42 +0000

Using JS Libraries and stuff can be like a business owner using third party software. Sure, the business owner doesnt NEED to use the third party software. She can create it herself after putting in the time to learn how to do it. But for her, business isnt about building software. Javascript libraries (to a lesser extent) can be an enabler for a developer to spend her time working on other things. If the library has a thriving community then she can get a level of reliability she may not have time to develop herself. And, she may not feel that she is the greatest thing to web programming and would like to use something developed by a quality concerned community as opposed to rolling her own.

By: Juca

Juca — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:05:38 +0000

I still don’t get all the buzz about the JS libraries and stuff, I really prefer to do my own code (even if it’s a little more time consumable), but hey, if there are so many people talking about, I’m gonna try some day when I’ll really need it.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:27:36 +0000

The WP admin is hardly over to jQuery yet. The source is just included, and a few little specks of jQuery are here and there, but for the most part, the JS is Prototype-based.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:06:07 +0000

Prototype has had a similar documentation widget for quite some time now.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:02:22 +0000

Sensationalist misinformation tends to sway many. Sorry he fell for it.