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jQuery in Action: why so successful?

 
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Hi Bear,

Why is jQuery so successful in your eyes?

Does it miss any feature you would have
liked it to incorporate or improve?

Cheers,

Gian
 
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I think jQuery has been so successful for many of the same reasons that I personally like it: it's very powerful yet terse. It's not invasive -- for example, unlike Prototype, it doesn't change the way that the elements or JavaScript itself behaves. The CSS-like syntax of the selectors is easy to learn. It's extensibility (plugins and the like).

But most of all, because it makes areas that have traditionally been cross-browser nightmares easy (Events, DOM, and Ajax, specifically).
 
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