I disagree with faster development though. Once you wrote in jQuery for a long time it might be the case, but personally I am confused with all the chaining and anonymous functions. I try to know my scope in my scripts and actually hate �this� as it is never unambiguous.

I agree that chaining can be difficult to get used to, but it allows you to do so much more to be in a single line of code. You end up with expressive code that doesn’t rely on calling the object over and over again throughout the script to apply it’s properties/functions. If used wisely, each line of code defines an object’s actions and properties, without “scatterbraining” them throughout the script. That is only one, purely organizational benefit that I recognize every time I write a script. And the more I use jQuery, the more I realize that it has every bit of functionality that I need to get the job done.

I hope those tutorial will be helpful and user friendly. One ready you can submit them to a special section I’d provide and they will reach targeted audience.

YUI is more like what I would normally expect to be writing so that was quick to get going with.

The amount of time and code I have saved with jQuery though has really impressed me.

I also said in my talk at @mediaAjax that it doesn’t matter what library you use unless you use one :)

I disagree with faster development though. Once you wrote in jQuery for a long time it might be the case, but personally I am confused with all the chaining and anonymous functions. I try to know my scope in my scripts and actually hate “this” as it is never unambiguous.

jQuery is a great piece of work, but I personally think it needs a lot of effort to write maintainable and clean code with it.