Mootools, Scriptaculous, Prototype, YUI or JQuery?

[eluser]Techie-Micheal[/eluser]
[quote author="JayTee" date="1203934896"][quote author="inparo" date="1203839201"]While I do think that the 'everything on one line' method chaining that their homepage advertises should be used with caution, what I was refering to here are the function/selector names. If you work with jquery everyday you will without a doubt get used to them. Since I only use it occasionally, I find it less than intuitive. Functions like 'one' and 'map; or selectors such as 'lt' and 'gt' really tell you nothing about their behavior.
It also makes it harder to read code in the future. You might use jquery now, but switch to a new framework down the road.[/quote]
For that very reason, I stopped even trying to use jQuery. I'm so used to Prototype, and the jQuery documentation is so hard to decipher (for me) that I find that I'm doing more searching documents than getting things done.

I've gone back to old Prototype code ("old" in computer terms can be as early as 2 years) and have been able to pick right up and figure out what I was trying to accomplish at the time I wrote it. When I look back at a few of the old jQuery things I've done, I inevitably have to go back to their documentation. It's just not as readable (for some functions) to me.[/quote] Except that you don't have to chain methods in jQuery if you don't want to. But it is there for your use. You don't even have to use the $ shortcut if you don't want to. Heck, you can even change it to something else ... You use what you want, I'm not trying to talk you out of it, but I want people who are against jQuery to understand it before trying to talk other people out of it.

I quite like jQuery and have done quite a bit with it.