[Nycto]

I've been a Prototype user for a few years now. I've always kept an eye on jQuery, but my knowledge of it is incredibly shallow. I have to say, I was shocked when I saw that they added the "proxy" method. This description makes it sound exactly like "bind" method in Prototype. Is that a valid comparison? If so, why did it take so long for this to appear in jQuery? At this point, I don't think I could write a snippet of javascript without relying on that method.

[mcav]

"var self = this" provides a workaround that isn't too verbose, so maybe it diminished the need for "bind" enough to put it off.

FWIW, I do use a $.bind method that I got from somewhere in my own jQuery code.

[wvenable]

jQuery is a much smaller scope than Prototype or Mootools -- it doesn't try and enforce a JavaScript framework. I previously avoided it because it provided so much less general programming tools than the alternatives.

However, in the years since I made some of those technology decisions, jQuery has become the leader and thus more and more 3rd party technologies have been built around it.

I've recently switched to jQuery from mootools but I had to seek out a lot of plugins and other libraries (and build some stuff myself) to reach the same levels of capability but ultimately I'm happy with the results.