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- Boz0
yes.. JQuery is actually the savior of JS.. if it wasn't for jQuery nothing we see today would have happened.
And btw, it's very easy to learn and has stuff like Jquery transitions and JQuery equations (by Penner as well) that allow you to achieve similar tween animations..
However, they run much worse than Flash because DOM really can't handle a lot of JS by being CPU bound.. and unless you use canvas with HTML5, a lot of the new improvements with browsers won't really give much benefit in terms of speed.
So in the end, for a lot of stuff, animations you most likely won't be using JQuery a lot and you will be using Webkit CSS transforms that are somewhat hardware accelerated and have much better performance, especially when you move divs across the whole screen etc.
But it is very helpful and good.. And as I said, AS people can pick it up.. unfortunately JS/JQuery is still at the level of AS2 really, but it's really the best we have for HTML stuff and not really that bad.. you can do a lot of stuff with it.. you'll just hit some walls with performance if you don't plan stuff nicely and try to do too many things at once.
- mootools is cool, prototype.js is cool, there's a bunch of cool stuff out there....vaxorcist