jQuery & jQuery UI: JavaScript RIA Made Simple
I’ve been using the jQuery javascript library almost since its inception. It’s amazing to see how it’s progressed into a mature, robust rich internet application (RIA) tool. In addition to a powerful and elegant toolkit, the jQuery UI project adds beautiful widgets to the collection - each customizable and skinnable. The community behind jQuery is active and verbal — they communicate what they’re doing weekly.
For designers, jQuery is great because the learning curve is shallow. You can easily include jQuery in your header, then throw down some simple snippets of code to do amazingly complex things.
Bottom Line: If you’re looking for a great javascript library to unobtrusively enhance your company’s web site, jQuery should be a top look. Microsoft even recently made jQuery a part of their enterprise AJAX offerings.
1 year ago