More development notices …
<html>
<body>
<input type=”text” name=”q” id=”qTop” value=”2″ >
<input type=”text” name=”q” id=”q” value=”3″ >
<script>
var el = document.getElementById(‘q’);
alert(el.value);
alert(el.id);
</script>
</body>
</html>
So, guess what?
Exactly, this one will output: 2, qTop instead of 3,q
Known Microsoft issue aroung getElementById fixed in IE8.
Recently, I found a lot of really useful frontend products (ready components: here -> sohtanaka.com :) ) built with jQuery, so I decided to switch from PrototypeJS to jQuery. Since my applications don’t use to much javascripts, just maybe for ajax needs I have no need to load both libraries anymore.
On my opinion both libraries have different goals. On this moment prototypejs is more like base library which extends base js functionality, and jQuery is more usefull as practical framework with a lot of opensource and ready for use components. Also, with this switch I hope to receive more experience of usage both libraries because that will give me possibility to compare them and analyze results. Read the rest of this entry »