This is War!!

I’m talking about the Javascript Framework war! Will it ever end. Well, I sure hope not.

I hope it never ends because I want there to always be competition so the frameworks continue to adapt and become better!

Case in point…. Yesterday I was asked to go and work on a client’s site. In their site they were using the Framework Prototype. They were specifically using the Ajax.Updater function to bring in a feed to their home page. Needless to say it wasn’t working in all browsers.

This is the code used :

new Ajax.Updater(’placeholder’, url, { method: ‘get’, parameters: par });

It took me a few minutes to figure out what was wrong. I had to dig through the Prototype Framework and also some resources I had.

It appears that the way it is used, it will not work flawlessly in all browsers. ( This is a concern here at Solid Cactus! ).

I began researching more and more and the only way I could get that concept to work in all browsers was to use jQuery’s version of it.

This is the code used:

$(’#placeholder’).load(url + par);

hmm…. seems much simpler doesn’t it? Well not only is this simpler, it works in all browsers.

So, even though I’m not dead set on a specific framework, I think it really pays to look around!