Comments on: Jquery vs Prototype/Scriptaculous

By: last chaos gold

last chaos gold — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:05:45 +0000

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By: christiano

christiano — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:51:05 +0000

You may have a point with “each”, but I’m not sure that I would call Prototypes “each” a “struggle”. Also, your Ajax examples aren’t exactly fair to Prototype. I know it’s a quibble, but why use ’some/url’ for Prototype while a short variable for jQuery: it hurts your case. Also, the example you do use aren’t exactly equivalent. Sure you’ve got a simpler version in jQuery typed out, but what if you want a “post” instead of “get”? You’ve included all kinds of options and fine grained controls (and some stuffing as well) in the Prototype version that you don’t have in the jQuery one: var response = transport.responseText || “no response text”; — where is your equivalent in jQuery? and what if I wanted JSON or XML, or what if I wanted some other trigger than “onSuccess”.

In Prototype you could write a load script that would take all the options out of a regular Ajax.Request too, and only takes and url and an id as an argument, but that’s up to you.

I like your argument for jQuery’s iteration format, but you still didn’t give prototype a fair shake on the comparison. How’s this:

$$(’#draggables img’).each(function (item){ new Draggable( item,{ revert: true, ghosting: true }});

not so bad, and I think that more options are better. jQuery makes things too simple sometimes.

By: Nightfly

Nightfly — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:03:50 +0000

A little unfair comparison.

1. For Script.aculo.us, use this: $$(‘#draggables img’).each( instead of $A($(‘draggables’).getElementsByTagName(‘img’)).each(

2. The Ajax syntax is OK for me, jQuery’s version being “sweeter” but not much more easy.

3. Right

4. True. But minification is not so important. gzip is. And when you use a CDN-hosted version, it doesn’t matter anyway.

By: last chaos gold

last chaos gold — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:14:49 +0000

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