Who does not use jQuery these days?

[Squirrel Hacker]

While I tend to use it, it is frowned upon at my office as it is seen as bloat... They have written their own pile of global functions that they prefer to use... sigh

Squirrel Hacker

[Michael A Cochran]

Wow, I'm actually surprised by the number of "don't use it" or "never heard of it" replies. IMHO, it's an essential part of any RIA. If you're not using a plugin like Silverlight or Flash, you gotta be thinking about using such a well accepted, cross-browser, cross-platform library like jQuery. Seems like it's probably one of the few useful libraries that is embraced by both Microsoft and IBM. Microsoft has fully incorporated it into the ASP.NET 4 webform and MVC components, and although IBM still pushed dojo (of course), there are tons of jQuery articles on IBM's developerworks site and it works well in all the IBM products. I even heard rumblings a while back that MS was going to opensource their ajax library probably because so much of it is now based upon jQuery. Not sure if they really did or not though. From the practical side, jQuery selectors are very flexible, allowing both DOM and CSS style selectors, and generally very fast. There are number of useful ui components and there is a large open source contribution as well. It's also super easy to create your own plugins. Want a treeview? Render a nested ul, call one jQuery.ui function and, bam!, you gotta nice treeview. Want a tabstrip? Render a collection of divs, call one jQuery.ui function and, pow!, there's a tab strip. Wanna do AJAX with a REST API? It's a simple jQuery function call, and it supports JSON, XML, HTML, text, as well as custom types. And it's all cross-browser. You might be wondering if I'm somehow affiliated with jQuery. I'm not. I just know it's been a godsend to me while trying to build and maintain commercial web applications that need to be cross-browser, cross-platform. I can build one client side codebase that works against either a .Net or a Java backend via an easy to create REST api. I would recommend jQuery to anyone... (actually, I think I just did :laugh: )

[Cure4Life]

I've looked at it in the past, but seriously cannot find a reason to stop using Prototype over jQuery http://prototypejs.org[^] However, i believe they can co-exist if needed.

BillBuilt

[Matthew Hazlett]

Use what you like but prototypes rendering speeds are the worst of the lot. http://mootools.net/slickspeed/[^] For full disclosure, I am in the mootools camp.

Matthew Hazlett Fighting the good fight for web usability.

[was8309]

being a web dev newbie, was trying to decide between dojo, prototype, and jquery, while trying to learn javascript by studying http://www.tiddlywiki.com/[^] . when tiddlywiki went w/ jquery, I followed.

[Mark C Hagers]

(a bit late to the party, but 30 april is a national holiday in Holland, so I missed this discussion earlier) I use it all the time, and I love it. The great thing about it IMO is that it's a library of functions I can use in my own code as opposed to a framework that forces me to recode everything according to it's guidelines. And I love the tight integration with VS. Mark C Hagers New Media Ventures Amersfoort, the Netherlands

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

Mark C Hagers wrote:

The great thing about it IMO is that it's a library of functions I can use in my own code as opposed to a framework that forces me to recode everything according to it's guidelines

That's an excellent point.

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

Prototype was what I started with long time back. Very neat and well designed library. But jQuery took over it and has now emerged as the front runner.

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

I am really surprised with dojo's speed. I always thought it was very bloated. I guess I was wrong.

[jimrthy]

Me either. It just feels sloppy and lazy to me. It reminds me too much of perl. Dojo is a much better fit for the way my mind works. But it's all a matter of personal preference. I'll eventually come up with something clever to put here. Really.