jQuery Makes Writing JavaScript Fun Again
Nick Pink attended the Silicon Valley HTML5 Users Group meeting recently and here are his notes which I am posting with his permission.
Last night I went a meetup sponsored by the Silicon Valley HTML5 Users Group called “jQuery Makes Writing JavaScript Fun Again”. The speaker, Dr. Doris Chen of Microsoft, talked specifically about AJAX so I thought I would post a few points of the talk here.
- "Naked" AJAX is complex and difficult to wield
- Using a JavaScript toolkit to "wrap up" the messy details is helpful
- jQuery is the most popular AJAX toolkit and is free
- Microsoft hearts jQuery and is contributing to a few new plugins
- Templates plugin allows you to make a template for inserting dynamic data
- Datalink plugin helps with keeping the UI and form data synchronized
- Globalization plugin has international widgets, you can easily switch languages
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