jQuery, New Wave Javascript
jQuery is a new type of JavaScript library. It is not a huge, bloated, framework promising the best in AJAX - nor is just a set of needlessly complex enhancements - jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. I'm very impressed until here !
jQuery is a JavaScript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing JavaScript code should be fun. jQuery achieves this goal by taking common, repetitive, tasks, stripping out all the unnecessary markup, and leaving them short, smart and understandable.
jQuery code looks like :
The above code snippet looks for all paragraphs that have a class of 'surprise', adds the class 'ohmy' to them, then slowly reveals them.
jQuery supports CSS 1-3 and basic XPath, small as 10kb and compatible Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. To get started with jQuery you may check their Tutorial page, there is also two demos that you may check the feedpile website and the second one applies a drop shadow to all images on a page. Documentation is also available with excellent explanation of how to use jQuery API, with prototype, create plugins .. etc.
jQuery is written by John Resig and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
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