I don't know lot of other javascript libraries, but from whatever I have seen, JQuery seems to be the way to go when it comes to interactive rich web development. Of course needless to say Google comes very handy for people like me to identify "the right choice" while learning in an unstructured way. Yesterday I received a feedback from one of the early users of JokesHive.com and a friend of mine that Joke Submission field doesn't have a check on size on UI level while it doesn't support large text content in the DB level. This was one the items to be done where I want to limit the size to 400 characters. This helps to stick to data type 'String' which has a limitation of 500 character on Google App Engine (GAE) and to have a uniform look on the UI by fixing the height of the display area. However, increasingly I have a realization that people from Western world and US of A in particular enjoy jokes that are pretty large, at times almost a page length.
For now, I will limit the length of the text to 400 Chars and use Twitter like countdown indicator.
I will the JQuery plugin from - http://www.andymatthews.net/code/textCounter/
Hope the users of JokesHive.com appreciate this improvement.
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