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A Tour of jQuery

January 18, 2007 - 10:58am — sgoguen

This tuesday I did a short-presentation about jQuery with an interactive demo and a live coding demo that could have gone better. :) If you've never heard of jQuery it's a fantastic javascript library which makes DHTML incredibly productive.

In essence, the basic idea behind jQuery is you select the HTML you want to work with using CSS or XPath selectors and manipulate them while writing little to no enumeration code. If that's not enough for you: You're also usually able to solve many otherwise complex problems in 1-3 lines of code because of the way jQuery utilizes JavaScript's method chaining. While method chaining is nothing new, jQuery demonstrates how a well-thought out object with well thought out methods can make method chaining a very productive tool.

If all that doesn't sound like it's enough for you, I think the jQuery plugin page speaks for itself.