About 6 months ago I started using Prototype and Scriptaculous for AJAX development. I chose that combination over the Dojo Tookit because they were much better documented. While Prototype is a great AJAX library I’ve always felt that it has been let down by Scriptaculous. Effects are fine but as a web developer I’m really interested controls/components.

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of Drupal development which is how I discovered jQuery. While it’s still early days I feel safe in declaring that jQuery is my new best friend.

So why did I switch to jQuery?

1. It’s documentation is pretty good
2. It’s very similar to Prototype so migration was almost trivial
3. It seems easier to use
4. With jQuery UI I get controls rather than effects