i think that most important aspect is: jquery is more community driven... just paly around with its countless plugins, and also people here to discuss jquery related matters 24x7x365
i think the answer is clear that jquery is the way to go. On 8月4日, 下午11時48分, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to decide on a JS framework for my website and I am > looking at jQuery and prototype. While, I understand there are many > philisophical differences between the implementations, it looks like > to me one of the big differences are all of the new functions > available in prototype. > > What I am curious about, is does jQuery have support for these things > or in jQuery are you basically expected to use the easy access to DOM > objects to create the functionality you need as you go. > > For example, in prototype, adds these methods to the form element > (http://www.prototypejs.org/api/form > ): > > disable enable findFirstElement focusFirstElement getElements > getInputs request reset serialize serializeElements > > Does jQuery have anything similar? In jQuery would you just write > these yourself? I can see the benefit of this being that you only > include the methods you need and there is no bloat. But I just > recently read that you can get a compressed prototype library down to > 26k - so isn't that almost the same as jQuery? > > I guess I am just looking for a reason to use jQuery vs. Prototype and > an argument about why I don't need all those (useful?) methods > available in prototype? Anyone?

