Comments on: jQuery vs. Prototype

By: Dellian

Dellian — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:51:19 +0000

You’re supposed to view it in 720p, then the font size is iditnecal to what you would normally read. Just click the tab on the bottom right-hand side of the player that says 360p and change it to 720p .You’ll be able to read it then

By: David Lee

David Lee — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:27:56 +0000

Here’s a more updated article that everyone can contribute to:
http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/JQuery_vs_Prototype

I’ve updated some info to include newest information for jQuery 1.4 and Prototype 1.6.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:35:59 +0000

This article is very dated.

Regardless, Scriptaculous is modular and you can pick what you do/don't want. Prototype and Scriptaculous can also be minified for production, drastically decreasing their size.

Just getting into jQuery and Mootools recently on some projects, but they both have their strengths and weaknesses too I'm sure.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:00:08 +0000

True. Google's JavaScript CDN is pretty neat too: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ That allows your browser to cache and use the files across multiple sites.

By: pablo pazos

pablo pazos — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:39:04 +0000

the loading of the javascript is only done the first time you load the page, so is no 27 sec every time you access a page… long life to browser cache!

By: Hever

Hever — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:33:22 +0000

Yes. You don't need onclick attribute. But you don't need a scriptaculous library too. Function Element.toggle() is in prototype library.

compare actually size of library files: prototype 126kB vs. jQuery 112kB

By: Nova’s Blog » Blog Archiv » JQuery Tutorials für Einsteiger

Nova’s Blog » Blog Archiv » JQuery Tutorials für Einsteiger — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:53:23 +0000

[…] (Teil2) http://www.box.net/shared/8ld3xfa82h#1:9195731 jQuery Cheat Sheet (zum Runterladen) http://www.webmaster-source.co.....prototype/ http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:How_jQuery_Works […]

By: solnic

solnic — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:21:48 +0000

“jQuery can do pretty much everything Prototype can do” – nope, it doesn’t have OOP features like Prototype and some other small extensions which are quite useful.

Lack of modularization in Prototype is a bad thing, I agree, in example have a look at:

http://mootools.net/download

isn’t it just wonderful? jQuery is also much better on that field, but when it comes to functionality, well…IMHO Prototype offers much more then jQuery, but I won’t make a statement that it’s better then jQuery, because I haven’t written any real project using jQuery.

Regarding all that jQuery-vs-Prototype-thing Justin Palmer did some comments, I totally agree with his opinion:

http://alternateidea.com/blog/.....-vs-jquery.

2 weeks ago I did performance tests of both libraries, see my blog for details.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:14:25 +0000

Good points, all of you.

Also, you may want to take a look at this post I just found:
http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/.....-to-jquery

By: Web 2.0 Announcer

Web 2.0 Announcer — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:24:16 +0000

jQuery vs. Prototype…

[…]The two biggest JavaScript frameworks in use are jQuery and Prototype. Until recently, I used Prototype a bit. After having to use jQuery for a recent project, I’ve actually started to enjoy using it. It’s easy to use, and it’s lightweight. …