Be a JavaScript Rockstar (jQuery site redesign)

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Post by danw » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 10:21 AM UTC

Be a JavaScript Rockstar (jQuery site redesign)
jquery.com

Re: Be a JavaScript Rockstar (jQuery site redesign)

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Post by ionfish » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 10:46 AM UTC

How absolutely ghastly. I'm not sure which I hate more: the copy, the style or the illustration.

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Post by pistoriusp » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 10:51 AM UTC

Shockingly disgusting... I'm incredibly embarrassed, imagine trying to convince your boss that you should be using jQuery.

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Post by goodkarma » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 12:05 PM UTC

pistoriusp wrote: post #3

Shockingly disgusting... I'm incredibly embarrassed, imagine trying to convince your boss that you should be using jQuery.

With a list of "who's using jQuery" that includes Google, Bank of America, Dell, CBS, NBC, Netflix.. your boss might not be the sharpest tool in the shed if "be a javascript rock star" bothers them..

Re: Be a JavaScript Rockstar (jQuery site redesign)

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Post by goodkarma » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 12:09 PM UTC

Dude, it's just a javascript library. And a pretty damn good one.

I think you guys might be a little too uptight..

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Post by ericwaller » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 12:16 PM UTC

The worst part is the docs, they've become significantly less readable, and the content doesn't start until much farther down the page.

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Post by gigawatt » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 12:17 PM UTC

I had to check the URL to make sure it didn't end in /thisisajoke. I guess if you got rid of the illustration banner it wouldn't be that bad. Whose idea was it to use My Chemical Romance to market jQuery?

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Post by thomasmallen » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 12:18 PM UTC

pistoriusp wrote: post #3

Shockingly disgusting... I'm incredibly embarrassed, imagine trying to convince your boss that you should be using jQuery.

I agree, this is a legitimate problem for those of us who have to evangelize to get good technologies like jQuery past the gatekeepers at work. I'm considering starting an online petition of sorts, because I can't afford to have a library I depend on, and which has high visibility, to look like immature crap.

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Post by _b8r0 » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 12:21 PM UTC

The problem I find with illustrations of that size and in that position on the page is that I have to scroll down before I get to anything meaningful. By the time I've reached any content the website has already frustrated me as a browser.

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Post by gaius » Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 12:22 PM UTC

goodkarma wrote: post #4

pistoriusp wrote: post #3

Shockingly disgusting... I'm incredibly embarrassed, imagine trying to convince your boss that you should be using jQuery.

With a list of "who's using jQuery" that includes Google, Bank of America, Dell, CBS, NBC, Netflix.. your boss might not be the sharpest tool in the shed if "be a javascript rock star" bothers them..

What does that actually mean, tho'? That they're running mission-critical apps on it? Or that some third party ad agency they subcontracted something to happened to use it on one project? Or something in between?

I'm always suspicious of client rosters like that because in a big enough company, pretty much everything is being used in one way or another, even if it's only for someone's pet project. It doesn't mean a thing.