Comments on: jQuery Weighs Less http://technovangelism.com/blog/2009/10/14/jquery-weighs-less/ Technova for short Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: erik http://technovangelism.com/blog/2009/10/14/jquery-weighs-less/comment-page-1/#comment-73 erik Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:05:09 +0000 http://technovangelism.com/blog/?p=270#comment-73 <p>My first real experience with javascript was through Dojo and I didn't understand enough to know if I really liked it or not. Now that I know something about selectors, I might look at Dojo again.</p> My first real experience with javascript was through Dojo and I didn’t understand enough to know if I really liked it or not. Now that I know something about selectors, I might look at Dojo again.

]]> By: Mahmoud http://technovangelism.com/blog/2009/10/14/jquery-weighs-less/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Mahmoud Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:27:43 +0000 http://technovangelism.com/blog/?p=270#comment-72 <p>Oh my goodness, yes. Prototype is bloated, slow, and kind of just sad. It's like the CGI of javascript frameworks in my book. jQuery and Dojo are where it's at, especially for performance:</p> <p>http://blog.creonfx.com/javascript/dojo-vs-jquery-vs-mootools-vs-prototype-performance-comparison</p> <p>I prefer jQuery for its syntax, documentation, and plethora of community code. I've used Dojo and the comfort of using jQuery outweighs the performance difference for my cases. I toyed with mootools which is marginally faster than jQuery at times, but did not like the syntax one bit.</p> Oh my goodness, yes. Prototype is bloated, slow, and kind of just sad. It’s like the CGI of javascript frameworks in my book. jQuery and Dojo are where it’s at, especially for performance:

http://blog.creonfx.com/javascript/dojo-vs-jquery-vs-mootools-vs-prototype-performance-comparison

I prefer jQuery for its syntax, documentation, and plethora of community code. I’ve used Dojo and the comfort of using jQuery outweighs the performance difference for my cases. I toyed with mootools which is marginally faster than jQuery at times, but did not like the syntax one bit.

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