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Three real good reasons to use JQuery, from a Mootools lover

I have been an avid mootools user for many years. A couple of times I have looked at JQuery and turned up my nose. That being said I am a firm believer that one should reassess ones knowledge/opinions/assumptions periodically just to make sure the world has not changed while you were not looking. This is one time that the reassessment did indeed change what I believe, and here are 3 things making that change:

Community Support

JQuery has a large community of active users. This makes finding information supplementary to the JQuery official documentation very easy. JQuery’s community also means that when you post a question some where you will not wait long for an answer.

Selectors

JQuery uses the same selectors as CSS. When working with a team of both developers and designers this is wonderful. When it comes to addressing the DOM with JQuery both the designers and the developers are speaking the same language. Every bridge you can build between your developers and designers makes for a stronger team. Not to mention using CSS selectors is just easier than all the hoops you have to jump through in other frameworks.

Speed

With the release of version 1.3 of the JQuery framework, many of the functions are faster than any other JavaScript framework. With the ever increasing amount of JavaScript executing on a page the speed is a welcome relief.

These are three very important reasons to take another look at JQuery.

I have done a little more playing around with JQuery and have found one major draw back when compared to Mootools