Comments on: JQuery Fun

by: Luke Maciak

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:59:08 +0000

Yeah, I had a run in with dojo at one point, but I remember it was big and confusing mess. At least that was my first impression, and I didn’t really work with it long enough to fully appreciate it.

I also saw some really cool stuff being done with prototype but I never actually used it.

I kinda fell in love with JQuery because it was so tiny/simple, and yet could do most of the things her bigger brothers and sisters were capable of.

by: Adam Kahtava

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:35:14 +0000

Many of the other JavaScript libraries (YUI, Scriptaculous, even the ASP.NET AJAX Client Side libraries) offer capabilities almost identical to JQuery. Scriptaculous / Prototype is probably closest to JQuery. The nice thing about these JavaScript libraries is that they’re cross platform compatible, and built around the Event Driven Programming Model - so they really force you to think differently.

by: Luke Maciak

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:24:05 +0000

Hey, I actually didn’t think about that. Good one! Still, JQuery code remains slightly more readable.

I could do something like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#nice > a:even").click(function() {
        // on click code goes here
    });
});

This would only add the on-click function to the even numbered link inside a container with the id of nice which would probably require more code in your example.

by: Adam Kahtava

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:48:18 +0000

To make things even more fun…

In the first example you could have listened to a container object like the window.onclick, then filtered out the event type, this could have probably distilled your first example into something similar to your later example.

Something like:

window.onclick = function onClickFunction(myEvent){
if(myEvent.target === ‘A’){
// the on click code goes here
}
}