- fastest growing and most popular framework according to Google trends
- by far the most popular (68%) among “designers who use a js library”(as opposed to developers) according to Ajaxian survey
- also the most popular among developers, but by a lesser margin
- 3 releases within the past year
- 1.2.2: new Event API for plugins, mouseenter, mouseleave, ready, and mousewheel events; $(DOMElement) 300% faster
- 1.2.3: new methods: .data(), removeData()
- 1.2.6: performance improvements (event handling, css selectors, offset(), css(), dimensions plugin made part of core
- jQuery 1.3: “all about performance” - new selector engine, 10x faster DOM manipulation, no more browser sniffing in jQuery core (out this fall)
- jQuery UI 1.5: improved code quality, faster, bug fixes
- Nokia integrating jQuery into WebKit phone browser on all new Nokia phones
- Microsoft making jQuery part of dev platform, integration with Visual Studio
- instead of browser sniffing based on user-agent string, using a features-testing model which does some DOM operations and tests the results to determine what browser quirks and bugs are present