Adopting JQuery was one of the smartest technology decisions we made.
Gordon and I faced a lot of technology choices when we began work on Infovark. One of the best decisions we made was using the JQuery JavaScript framework.
Today marks the official release of JQuery 1.4. This new version brings several performance improvements, greater support for JSON, Ajax, and HTML 5, and many other improvements.
What are you waiting for? Go get it.
All this programming goodness comes free, but the JQuery Project is asking for contributions to support the effort.
Since the Infovark coffers are a bit thin at the moment, I made a personal donation to the JQuery Project. To celebrate the release of JQuery 1.4, for the next 14 days any donation over $20 will receive a free JavaScript ebook. The details are on the donate page.
I gave the JQuery Project $30. Considering the amount of time it’s saved me, it was a small amount, but I figure every bit helps.
If you’ve found JQuery valuable, consider giving something back to the community. And if you haven’t, you owe it to yourself to check out the latest release with its improved API documentation.
2 Comments
Ben Tremblay
Just wondering if you checked ExtJS. (Breaking news: neither http://extjs.com nor http://sencha.com respond! Wow, that’s news to me.)
I picked it so many years ago I can’t recall the rationale.
Just wondering what you thought of it. Or, more, why it didn’t draw you from JQuery.
@bentrem
02 Feb 2011 05:02 pm
Dean
@bentrem I'm not sure ExtJs showed up on our radar. I remember looking at MooTools, Prototype/Scriptaculous, and JQuery. The JQuery core had good documentation and a thriving community. But it mainly just felt right somehow.
Actually, if I had to point to one thing that really attracted me to JQuery, it's the Sizzle selector engine. The use of CSS-style selectors and XPath-like syntax to reference HTML elements and attributes was utterly brilliant.
02 Feb 2011 09:02 pm
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