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I’ve had reason to look into javascript libraries recently at work, initially in the building of the Profero Tacheback site (which I urge you to visit and perhaps sponsor/donate - it’s all for charidee mate), and more recently in a general R&D capacity.

And even though it wasn’t used on that site, and I’ve actually not used it on a project yet, jQuery has leapt out at me as being awesomely powerful without being too much of a sledgehammer for my nuts.

What I loved was that it has built-in syntax for selecting everything in the document that matches a CSS selector (for example) and also has built-in AJAX handling methods and has some pre-built visual effects that are easy to use, yet it’s not a hulking behemoth like Dojo or an inflexible pre-packaged box-of-tricks like Scriptaculous.

These are by no means fully explored opinions - this is my reaction after toying around with the libraries in question with a particular task at hand - and I’m fully with the “each to his own” idea, so I’m definitely not saying that jQuery is the one and all others are heathens. I’m just saying it lit my lights, it spun my wheels, it rang my particular bell.

YMM, as ever, V.
–c.