jQUERY 1.5 : Pros & Cons

In this article, I am going to discuss on Jquery. Even Extjs uses it internally. Lets see its pros/cons and browser support -


Pros

1) Light weight when compared to other javascript frameworks.

2) Wide range of plugins available for various specific needs.

3) A lot more easy to use compared to standard javascript and other javascript libraries. Apart from simple syntax, it also requires much less lines of code to achieve the same feature in comparison.

4) Chaining capabilities are very powerful

5) It helps to develop Ajax templates with ease.

Cons

1)  Functionality maybe limited –
While it has an impressive library in terms of quantity, depending on how much customization you require on your website, functionality maybe limited thus using raw javascript maybe inevitable in some cases.

2) JQuery javascript file required –The JQuery javascript file is required to run JQuery commands, while the size of this file is relatively small (25-100KB depending on server), it is a strain on the client computer .


Browser Compatibility

FireFox 3.6, 5.0.x, 6.0.x

IE  6+

Safari 5.0.x.

Opera Current - 1 version

Chrome Current - 1 version

There are known problems with: Firefox 1.0.x

IE 1.0-5.x Safari 1.0-2.0.1 Opera 1.0-9.x