[jQuery] Feedback for a proposal to switch from prototype to jQuery
Hi all,
So we all obviously know why jQuery is better than prototype,
otherwise we wouldn't be here. I use jQuery for all of my personal
projects, but unfortunately I'm stuck with prototype in my day job. We
do have a rather complex piece of software, and I'd have to go through
a lot of code in order to see how long it would take to switch to
jQuery, but I'm sure it's feasible.
What I'm hoping for, is some feedback from you folks on the best way
to start a proposal for why we should switch to jQuery. I have a huge
dotted list, including some obvious facts such as having the best
community, excellent documentation, ease of use, widgets/plugins all
available from a central repository for the most part, it goes on and
on.
If anyone of you have done something similar and were successful, I'd
love to hear from you. My CTO is a very reasonable guy, but he's also
very technical and he'll be ready to counter any potential reasons to
decline using jQuery, and I have a feeling his most valid point would
be the difficulty and time it would take to switch. He'll also
probably mention that new javascript frameworks are emerging everyday
and if we keep switching we'll never finish the application. Those are
very strong arguments and will be hard to reasonably respond to.
Anyhow, I want to take a stab at it. I want to be able to sit at my
desk and continue using jQuery at the office and not only on my own
projects.
Thanks for any ideas all. :-)
- sf