Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!l6g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Alessio Stalla Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: tools for programming applets Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 03:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <028d2009-98b7-43a3-b02d-83eaa89db79e@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.21.125.159 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1306751163 14464 127.0.0.1 (30 May 2011 10:26:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:26:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l6g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=151.21.125.159; posting-account=lQGEkQoAAAB85u9ZdpjVtg0WoVPxKpxu User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4733 On 28 Mag, 21:17, Steve Sobol wrote: > In article , Lawrence D'Oliveiro says... > > > > > In message , Michael Wojcik wrote: > > > > It's true they're rarely as undeservedly popular as jQuery is. > > > ?Undeservedly popular? is in the eye of the beholder. > > The one big criticism I might accept of jQuery is that it hides features > of the DOM that web developers really ought to learn. That, and the fact that it somewhat encourages an always-use-selectors- first style which is not the most efficient way of doing things. That said, I love jQuery too. I wouldn't love it that much if the DOM API wasn't the horrible, verbose thing that it is. Alessio