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Episode 13: JavaScript Libraries Overview

Last epsidode I spoke with Yahoo!'s Matt Sweeny, primary responsible for two YUI utilities, however in this episode I spoke just a bit on some of the benefits of other libraries and how they can be useful for you. In particular I picked apart some of the entries from the jQuery Event Selector showdown and speaked a bit on the shortcomings and benefits of each. Nonetheless, the driving factor for any library is that it is beneficial for you and that you can get things done with it. Since I obviously hold close ties to YUI I wanted to make it clear of what it does and doesn't do. Other than YUI (which I barely even talked about), I touched a bit on Sam's Prototype, John's jQuery, and Justin's Event Selectors. Others I mentioned but didn't go into detail (mainly because I don't know them as well) was MochiKit and Alex's Dojo Toolkit.

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Actually, I really didn't have much except for Jack Born's latest jump into doing his side project at 15 Days of jQuery.

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