Ignoring the Zed Shaw tone, he makes an excellent point. Part of why I work on Faux is that jQuery isn't a framework. It's a library. I try to explain to people that Faux is to Backbone as Rails is to ActionController/ActionView and Active, and now that I think of it, Faux is to jQuery as Rails is to ActiveRecord.
Well maybe not exactly those comparisons, and it isn't nearly as good as Rails 3.x, but certainly that's the right scaling, and it would be a tremendous mistake to start a rich SPI application and think that jQuery is a framework, just as it would be a mistake to start a web application and think that ActiveRecord is a framework.
Well maybe not exactly those comparisons, and it isn't nearly as good as Rails 3.x, but certainly that's the right scaling, and it would be a tremendous mistake to start a rich SPI application and think that jQuery is a framework, just as it would be a mistake to start a web application and think that ActiveRecord is a framework.