JQuery is an impressive web page building tool.

by Will

If you are a web programmer, and you want to have fancy fading- in- and- out, sliding- up- and- down, refreshing-without-full-page-load effects, then you should check out JQuery. It is a TINY Javascript library that lets you accomplish all this nonsense with remarkably little code. The Javascript portion of a page is normally a huge spider-web of messy code that barely works on more than one browser type — but JQuery somehow lets you get the same amount done with terse, readable lines — that NEVER mixes with your HTML! When I read the documentation, it was like someone pointing out that every door in my house had another knob that I had never noticed before. I’m impressed! And their site is clean and easy-to-read, as far as these things go. WordPress-esque.

There is a web revolution going on, I’m certain. I’ve been doing this long enough to recognize it just be feel. And it FEELS like 1998. Hugely overpriced buyouts do not interest me, but elegant solutions that actually help do.

I hope Neil Casey reads this post, because no one else is going to give a rat’s ass.