What do you think about Jquery ?

[saidbakr]

Hi,

I think that Jquery (http://jquery.com) is a real magic and solves many hard problems easily in-order of creating client-side javascript and DHTML tasks inside a web application. This majestic features is incredibly increased by the counting Jquery UI (http://docs.jquery.com/UI)plug-ins such as sortables and draggables.

Do you agree with me about this library?, you think that self coding from the scratch is better or do you think there are better libraries than Jquery?

[Drakla]

JQuery is great, and it's really not worth reinventing the wheel by trying to write something like that yourself. The examples on the JQuery site are so sickeningly bad to read, though - their formatting really obfuscates the flow of what's going on because he's trying to push the "OOoh, look at what I can do with 3 lines of code!" type cack.

Prototype is also good, and combined with scriptaculous offers plenty of toys. There's a nice tutorial course here for it. The guy knows how to write.
http://www.phpriot.com/series/8-weeks-of-prototype

You'll probably end up using both, and at least two more (Moo, Yahoo, Google) if you're picking up bits from here and there, but if you're coding yourself you might as well stick to one you prefer.

[jazz_snob]

Drakla, I wish I saw that tutorial link when I was learning prototype! Heck I was new to javascript at the time, so that didn't help.

[bpat1434]

Dojo is officially backed by Zend Framework as now being a part of their framework for a bit though. Not as good as jQ though.