jQuery looks more and more as the standard JavaScript-library, distributed with Microsoft Visual Studio and Nokias SKD:s for widgets in the future.
“Additionally Microsoft will be developing additional controls, or widgets, to run on top of jQuery that will be easily deployable within your .NET applications.”
“Nokia is looking to use jQuery to develop applications for their WebKit-based Web Run-Time. The run-time is a stripped-down browser rendering engine that allows for easy, but powerful, application development. This means that jQuery will be distributed on all Nokia phones that include the web run-time.”
“In fact their [Microsoft and Nokia] developers will begin to help contribute back to the jQuery project by proposing patches, submitting test cases, and providing comprehensive testing against their runtimes. As with any contribution that comes in to the jQuery project it’ll be closely analyzed, reviewed, and accepted or rejected, based upon its merits, by the jQuery development team - no free ride will be given.”
Read more:
http://jquery.com/blog/2008/09/28/jquery-microsoft-nokia/ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/jQueryToShipWithASPNETMVCAndVisualStudio.aspx
Front-End Book is run and primarily written by Mattias Hising, an experienced Lead Developer from Uppsala, Sweden. I try to focus my efforts on Front-End related issues, as I find the problems to solve are more complex and interesting than the ones in traditional back-end development.
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