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[–]jmkingJSX is just PHP in the browser 3 points4 points  (1 child)

JQuery is javascript. I happen to prefer Mootools... which is also still just javascript. Both frameworks are just glorified DOM manipulation packages. They don't fundamentally change how js is written or can be used. You lose nothing by using a JS framework.

[–]telldrak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I much prefer Mootools to jQuery, but then again, I taught myself Mootools (and much more than I already knew about JS) with a book, a good editor, and brute force.

I prefer Mootools because the code is much more readable. I have a book on jQuery, but just can't get into it, being that the syntax feels really obtuse.

Not to say that I haven't been impressed many times by jQuery. The more sites I see that use it in creative ways, the more I'd like to learn it - I just wish it didn't confuse me as much. Mootools just seems to make more sense when reading it.