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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Hilton <daniel.hilton at gmail.com> wrote:
>  jQuery FTW!  It rocks my socks!
>
>  (Sorry it's saved the day this morning, made me happy)

Joy seems to be a common response to jquery. I love it, as do others:

"Using jQuery for the first time and weeping with joy"
-- Paul Boag, http://twitter.com/boagworld/statuses/766209089

"Falling in lurve with jQuery. Seriously, just read this and weep for
joy: http://tinyurl.com/28y2sb"
-- Josh Lewis, http://twitter.com/joshlewis/statuses/766238133

Simon Willison did an in-depth review of jQuery a while ago:

"When jQuery came out back in January 2006, my first impression was
that it was a cute hack. Basing everything around CSS selectors was a
neat idea (see getElementsBySelector) but the chaining stuff looked
like a bit of a gimmick and the library as a whole didn't look like it
would cover all of the bases. I wrote jQuery off as a passing fad.

"Over the past few months it's become clear to me exactly how wrong I
was. jQuery is an exceptionally clever piece of engineering. It neatly
encapsulates an extraordinary range of common functionality, and
provides a clever plugin API for any functionality not included by
default. It takes a core abstraction—that of a selection of DOM
elements—and extracts as much mileage out of it as possible. Most
importantly, it does so in a way that obeys best practices and plays
well with other JavaScript code."

-- http://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/jquery/

Tim