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That’s the problem with JQuery. You’re talking through the $ object. Prototype lets you talk straight to arrays. Or straight to strings. JQuery says “isn’t it fantastic that you couldn’t possibly make a fool of yourself by talking straight to these things?” Prototype says “sure but most of the time you wouldn’t make a fool of yourself anyway and is it really all that fun to be talking through your grandma like that?”

@karmi: I don’t think so jQuery will take over in Rails, if for no other reason, the heavy use of Prototype in 37signals…

And I am also aware that Rails will ship with jQuery as default, eventually. That is the power of the inevitable .)

(Sorry for broken language in the last comment, sometimes I type too fast, I guess…)

I am in the same camp as Jarkko above And quite firm that is

The Prototype&Scriptaculous list has a nice discussion of precisely these topics: http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous/browse_thread/thread/8b3bbc96fbd5ad7

For me, the issue is not the speed/easiness I can “sprinkle” (as Jarkko) writes some behaviour over the page. I regularly need some complex functionality in JS, eg. like this one: http://gist.github.com/14866 => Objects having state, etc.

And let’s not forget the Prototype is essentialy a “rubyfied” JavaScript, which makes things like array traversal, regexp matching/replacing, very, very similar to what we are used to do in Ruby.

I’d be very interested in any other argument for jQuery than it it’s “easier” or “faster” to add some dynamic behaviour to a page

–karmi