How to be a better developer: just use jQuery

by visualidiot • 14 years ago

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lukeholder2• 14 years ago

I cannot stand it when I look into the source of a page and see 12 script tags to 12 different plugins. Oh and 12 css files linked in to get all the widgets to look right.

drmartin• 14 years ago

Good!

Gigablah• 14 years ago

Very profound! Now do one on PHP.

drivebyacct23• 14 years ago

What the hell is the point of this? Seriously? Just come out with it. I love a good bit of snark and sarcasm but I'm tired of crap like this getting posted every week. Let's actually have a discussion about something instead of what literally amounts to flamebait.

Honestly, call me thick but I do not get the point. At all. This uses jQuery. But it also uses CSS3. And/But it also doesn't work without Javascript. Call me stupid, but there's no consistent advocacy anywhere. And there's a Twitter share button which I find is often hated by those who are quick to let you know they use noscript.

Or is this mocking the whole debate anyway. Somehow I think I'll regret having pondered it this long anyway.

edit: I'm sorry, I'm glad I flagged this. This is garbage. The troll is already proud of the response he's gained, it's pretty obvious looking at those who've tweeted this, that they don't know what to make of it either: https://twitter.com/#!/idiot/status/203403905500069888 and the image: http://i.imgur.com/JMFd6.jpg (Especially given that this is undoubtedly aimed at me.)

lukeholder2• 14 years ago

Lets discuss it here then. What are your thoughts about the misuse of jquery, and it's effects on the web and our profession?

drivebyacct23• 14 years ago

I can't even, honestly, tell if that's the point. I don't care. I'm a developer who has used jquery and half a dozen other libraries at various times. I think it has pros and cons and I tire of the "always javascript, never javascript" just as I tire of "democrats suck, republicans suck".

visualidiot• 14 years ago

People like you are the reason that everyone on the web is a boring old asshat. The point? Some people don't know how to use JavaScript properly, and just use jQuery for hiding elements, which ain't great.

http://static.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1281467030...

drivebyacct23• 14 years ago

You're a tool and that's all I really have to say. Someone's mad they got flagged off the homepage within, what like 8 minutes?

relaunched• 14 years ago

Best part of this post was the ASCII Dinosaur in the source code.

kreutz• 14 years ago

Every animation on that page uses CSS transitions.

netpenthe• 14 years ago

so tilty..

How to be a better developer: just use jQuery

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