jQuery - best javascript library till date
I have been using javascript extensively at work for over 2 years, and YUI for the most part of it. Even a few days back I didn’t know about jQuery. I was building my professional photography website and was discussing designs with my good friend and photographer Francesco. When I was done, our sites resembled a lot and Francesco suddenly got the urge to renovate his professional portfolio. He had been using jQuery at work, and in just a day he put up a gallery with top-of-the-line look and feel with soothing effects. I could not believe something existed that was much better than YUI so we compared code fragments. The conciseness and power of jQuery language blew me over, especially the $() selector. I added some cool effects on my site in a very short time and realized I could not do that with such simplicity had I used YUI.
I did not stop at that. I renovated my main website last Sunday, with a few hours of labor, mostly spent in GIMP to make some cool icons to go hand in hand with the magic of jQuery. I am very happy with it now and planning to do more changes to the site soon.
Big thanks to Francesco for opening this wonderful javascript world to me.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Hehe… I am glad you liked it as much as I did. In turn I need to thank my friend and coworker Mickey for showing jQuery to me in the first place when, while looking for a quick javascript solution for a very urgent project at work, he suggested it as an alternative to YUI (which I was proposing, of course, after having spent so many hours on the YUI Theater reading and listening about it).