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48 pointsrobin_reala8 comments

Ouch. jQuery is great, but was this the site that the guy behind the "JavaScript rock star!" page has dreamt of making ever since?! It took me a couple of minutes to work out that there was actually some useful content there, and I would long since have given up if I hadn't been expecting something worthwhile since I found it via an upvoted post on HN.

For those who are wondering, this seems to be the only real page there today: http://jquery14.com/pre-release-1/new-jquery-api-site

I don't know who downvoted this comment but I agree completely.

There's a tiny, tiny window of visible content if you open it in a 1440*900 window. I looked around for ages thinking wtf is this?

One of the worst sites I've seen in a long time.

How this submission is getting upvoted I do not know.

Crazy isn't it.

It was the misleading tabs that threw me. After reading all about the 14 days thing and January 14th as the anniversary date, I expected that today being January 8th at least the tabs up to 8 would show other content, but none of them do, except the first one, which actually goes to the link shown below anyway rather than working like the tab it appears to be. Everything else is just sponsor spam and subscription (to what?!) options.

Anyway, I eventually figured out where the real content was, hence my post above to save others wasting their time the same way.

I am surprised that so many other people share your sentiment. While I understand everybody loves to be a critic, is it really that bad? To me, the layout of the site was actually somewhat intuitive, and there was only 1 possible place content could be... right in the middle of the page below all the welcoming stuff. It's just like all the other run-of-the-mill blog-like sites... welcoming stuff and main links at the top, content below that, and useless stuff like ads and twitter on the left and/or right.

I haven't been keeping up with jQuery for awhile, but I look forward to the updates. Site could be toned down a bit, as I find the horns to be a bit distracting, but other than that, all I really care about are the 14 updates.

wow they rewrote all the documentation? The current documentation for jQuery is some of the best out there, I feel it is one of the key factors that lead to its success.

(incase you didn't see the close button on the popup: http://jquery14.com/pre-release-1/new-jquery-api-site)

It is very nice, but more examples would be a welcome addition.

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