Comments on: jQuery Wins .net Magazine’s Open Source Application of the Year

By: Aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:47:02 +0000

thanks

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:28:15 +0000

Since when is a library (or toolkit/framework for that matter) an ‘application’? That’s extremly strange. I really like JQuery but it’s not an application. This makes the award seem fairly appalling.

By: csuwldcat

csuwldcat — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:14:15 +0000

I agree with you Rey, jQuery really has popularized JS as a capable, powerful language. jQuery also gave a tool set to folks who may have thought it was a bit out of reach, congrats. I was only remarking on what an app was. (A while later that day, a co-worker reminded me that the computer won Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, go figure)

@jx12345 – Actually WordPress IS and app, last time I checked my server, it had PHP5, with a MySQL instance, and a web server on it all for the purpose of running that app. That is what I see an app as. Anywho, js is awesome, and it alone WILL be used to create complex apps in the near future.

By: jx12345

jx12345 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:24:17 +0000

@ReyBango
Yes, you’re right – didn’t notice the little “et al” there.

By: AndreCU

AndreCU — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:39:54 +0000

It’s well deserved. JQuery rocks!

By: ReyBango

ReyBango — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:21:31 +0000

@csuwldcat: I think it’s a great accomplishment for a JS lib to win an award like this. Whether it would’ve been MooTools (your fav), Dojo, DOMAssistant, YUI or any other, I think the recognition of such hard work would’ve been equally as important.

By: ReyBango

ReyBango — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:19:06 +0000

@jx12345: YUI is an absolutely superb library as are many others that I didn’t mention. When you write something followed by “et al”, it means “and others” and if you look at my post, that’s what I used to make reference to the large number of other top libs. It wasn’t done to overlook any other lib but mainly for the purpose of brevity on my post. There are so many great libs to mention which a list itself would take up this whole page. :)

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:57:54 +0000

Wow…! :)
Congratulations to the guys on the jQuery team, awesome :)

By: jx12345

jx12345 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:35:53 +0000

Well, there is an easy solution – rename the prize/award. WordPress is not an app either :).

A side note to the author. You don’t mention YUI. jQuery is fantastic. And I use it all the time. But. As a ninja-tool. YUI has established itself as a reliable enterprise-level framework. And there’s no other such a level framework available now. While I don’t think it is the best for the most pages, it if for some and I believe it should be recognized and mentioned. Mootools has a really superb animation module, but that’s the only thing that sets them apart. Anuthing else is, well, the same.

By: m3tropolis

m3tropolis — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:47:16 +0000

Completely agree; jQuery is not an app. Congrats on the recognition, anyway.

By: csuwldcat

csuwldcat — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:06:35 +0000

Umm, should any javascript library alone be called an “app” of anything? I mean by definition they are js abstractions and are merely helpers in coding your “app”…I love the js frameworks, just saying…

PS – When I can put only a script tag on a page that includes a library like jQuery or Mootools or Proto, with no other code, data, or assets, and it instantiates me a million dollar product via deductive JavaScript mind-reading (ECMA 6 will have that right?), I will then eat my keyboard and cast my vote for a library being an app…but I digress.