[UPHPU] Javascript question

[Joseph Scott]

On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Justin Hileman wrote:

> Don't try to break out the brevity card when you're arguing against  
> jQuery. Try this instead:
>
> $("#sample").val(3);


Oh, you forgot to include the 57,254 bytes of jQuery source above  
this, making it slightly bigger than the two lines you show below :-)

I really like jQuery, I use it frequently and encourage others to use  
it often.  If you are doing any amount of JS I highly recommend using  
it (or some JS library, jQuery being my favorite).

But let's not confuse things here.  This reminds of the folks who  
claim to write a web server 12 lines of Python (or Perl, Ruby, etc.)  
by conveniently not mentioning the 37,000 lines of modules that they  
imported and built upon.


> vs.
>
> var myselect=document.getElementById("sample");
> myselect.selectedIndex = 3;


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