By nadeemagaskar on

I am not an expert in JS library but curious to understand that why Drupal community is using Jquery for Drupal5,6 and 7.
Prototype:distributed standalone, but also as part of larger projects, e.g. script.aculo.us and Rico.It means that you can simply use these framework along with Prototype because these framework build on Prototype only.Drupal developer can make Drupal more user friendly by leveraging script.aculo.us and Rico features.At the same time i dont see such thing in JQuery.Even in Rails they are using Prototype and its very simple for Rails developer to leverage script.aculo.us and Rico library in their website.
I am looking forward to hear your point of view.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x

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Iumentum’s picture

Iumentum commented

JQuery got its own UI which got alot of nice features like script.aculo does.
Don't know why the decision is jquery but i am sure happy about it.
Not that i dislike prototype, i started using prototype back in the days but changed to jquery a little while after that was released.
The reason for the decision can be many, i think one of them is that its really simple to get started with jquery.
There is a lot of drupal users/developers who doesn't have HUGE javascript experience and i personally think that jquery is easier to get started with than prototype.

Hope someone from the drupal community can give you a straight answer to your question.

heine’s picture

heine commented

Our priorities are to make sure that:
- Drupal core has clean, well working, degradable, minimal JS functionality
- JS development for Drupal in general, within the mindset of the project, is easy and accessible, even to those who are not Javascript experts.

You can read about the selection of the javascript library on What JavaScript library should we use? (Regardless of licencing issues).
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