I don't mean for this to be inflammatory, so please don't take it that way. As someone who has used Prototype a lot and JQuery a little, they both seem very similar, but JQuery (at least initially) looks cleaner and more well thought-out. At this point I am wondering, other than tight integration out of the box with frameworks like Rails or Seaside, what advantages are there to using Prototype over JQuery?
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Defining classes and inheritance is built-in the framework.
Darin Dimitrov
2009-09-15 09:07:16
I think is one of the most profound features of Prototype. In jQuery you'd create plug-ins and do manual JS prototypal inheritance
kRON
2009-09-15 09:15:07
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The short answer is No. JQuery requires fewer lines of code and is more widely accepted. It has pretty much become the industry standard toolkit. Some vendors like Microsoft, are even shipping it with their latest products. Additionally, JQuery has over a thousand free plugins available, and the list is growing daily. They provide an incredibly amount of functionality that would take forever to develop on your own. No other toolkit even comes close. It also has a very very active and helpful user community. There is lots of documentation on the .NET for JQuery.
Anthony Gatlin
2009-09-15 09:08:27