Your Favourite Framework?

Lightweight? Put down the pipe and step away from the keyboard. For example, I've seen so many jQuery tabs on WP sites (those ones where you click the tab up the top and the content below changes) which require 50kb of Jquery JS - I found a not-even 1kb script off google that does the same thing. So 5000% smaller and does the same thing... hmm, I'd like to see this "its so lightweight" thing justified with an example. To me frameworks mean "I'd rather choose to be lazy and save myself time than do a proper job which loads as fast as possible". You can argue all day about how its quicker, easier or whatever - but you CAN'T argue that its "lightweight" in comparison to coding your own.

Originally Posted by rochow ...You can argue all day about how its quicker, easier or whatever - but you CAN'T argue that its "lightweight" in comparison to coding your own.

Oh for sure. Especially if you just need a couple effects here and there.

However, there is a trade-off between a few kb per page-load and the cost of the time it takes to write that code yourself. If you just need a couple functions, sure, just go grab or write scripts to do those specific things. But if you have a larger project that's going to use a good portion of a framework's functionality, I think it's worth it. The time saved writing AJAX calls alone can be substantial, and if you add animation into the mix, things really begin to add up.