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From: liketofindoutwhy on 15 Apr 2008 09:04 I am learning more and more Prototype and Script.aculo.us and got the Bungee book... and wonder if I should get some books on jQuery (jQuery in Action, and Learning jQuery) and start learning about it too? Once I saw a website comparing Prototype to Java and jQuery to Ruby... but now that I read more and more about Prototype, it is said that Prototype actually came from Ruby on Rails development and the creator of Prototype created it with making Prototype work like Ruby in mind. Is jQuery also like Ruby? Thanks so much for your help.
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 15 Apr 2008 19:47 liketofindoutwhy wrote: > I am learning more and more Prototype and Script.aculo.us and got the > Bungee book... and wonder if I should get some books on jQuery (jQuery > in Action, and Learning jQuery) and start learning about it too? > [...] Prototype.js, and consequently everything based upon it, like Script.aculo.us, is junk. The jQuery junk support forums are elsewhere, too. PointedEars -- Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
From: kangax on 15 Apr 2008 22:53 On Apr 15, 9:04 am, liketofindoutwhy <liketofindout...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am learning more and more Prototype and Script.aculo.us and got the > Bungee book... and wonder if I should get some books on jQuery (jQuery > in Action, and Learning jQuery) and start learning about it too? > > Once I saw a website comparing Prototype to Java and jQuery to Ruby... > but now that I read more and more about Prototype, it is said that > Prototype actually came from Ruby on Rails development and the creator > of Prototype created it with making Prototype work like Ruby in mind. > Is jQuery also like Ruby? Thanks so much for your help. Questions regarding prototype.js are better to be asked at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs Best, kangax
From: beegee on 16 Apr 2008 10:15 On Apr 15, 9:04 am, liketofindoutwhy <liketofindout...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Once I saw a website comparing Prototype to Java and jQuery to Ruby... In a very, very superficial way, yes but no, forget what I just said. I can't make the connection (not having read the site). Ruby and Javascript are dynamic languages. JQuery and Prototype would not be possible if Javascript was a compiled language like Java. And I personally think Ruby is a beautiful language whereas I haven't experienced a library whose "use code" looks quite as ugly as JQuery. As PointedEars said, they are both junk. If you insist on a library, check out YUI which is a lot like Javascript.
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 16 Apr 2008 12:44
beegee wrote: > [...] liketofindoutwhy [...] wrote: >> Once I saw a website comparing Prototype to Java and jQuery to Ruby... > > In a very, very superficial way, yes but no, forget what I just said. > I can't make the connection (not having read the site). Ruby and > Javascript are dynamic languages. JQuery and Prototype would not be > possible if Javascript was a compiled language like Java. For that matter, at least JavaScript[tm] *is* a compiled language like Java. Don't confuse prompt execution with no-compilation. > [...] > As PointedEars said, they are both junk. If you insist on a library, > check out YUI which is a lot like Javascript. I think you miss the point. YUI is *supposedly* only "more like 'Javascript'" (whatever that might be) than Prototype or jQuery in the sense that its developers *supposedly* knew enough about the programming languages to unleash their full potential without having to resort to inefficient and error-prone detours of inventing "classes" and "initializers" where there are already prototypes and constructors. PointedEars -- Use any version of Microsoft Frontpage to create your site. (This won't prevent people from viewing your source, but no one will want to steal it.) -- from <http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm> |