Comments on: jQuery Still Amazes Me After 3 Years

By: Josh Powell

Josh Powell — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:14:20 +0000

Love your comments on jQuery Rey. Here’s how I’d do it.

function jsonFlickrFeed(o) {
var str = ‘

’, i = 0;
while (o.items[++i]) {
str += ‘’;
}
str += ‘

’;
$(‘#main’).append(str);
}

By: Matt Kruse

Matt Kruse — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:09 +0000

ah yes, you’re right, thanks.

It’s a slightly different way to achieve the same goal, at least.

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:23:36 +0000

@Matt: That’s really nice! Looks like this part was cutoff from the comment:

mainDiv.innerHTML+=””;

Is that correct?

By: Matt Kruse

Matt Kruse — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:41:33 +0000

I use jQuery quite a bit, but a simpler POJS version would be a better comparison, and arguably clearer and faster than the jQuery version

function jsonFlickrFeed(o){
var i = -1, mainDiv = document.getElementById( “main” );
while(o.items[++i]) {
mainDiv.innerHTML+=”;
}
}

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:35 +0000

Absolutely agree Mike. My time with Mozilla really opened my eyes to the painstaking process browser teams have to go through to 1) get a consistent message about what standards are and 2) implement them in a concise way. You and the Firefox team truly have an unenviable task but totally kick ass doing it.

By: Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:55:10 +0000

I wish the technologies and standards were dead easy, alas!