I first heard of jQuery 1.0 in A List Apart article by Nick Rigby in June 06 titled "Prettier Accessible Forms" (http://alistapart.com/articles/prettyaccessibleforms). At that time, I wouldn't even touch Javascript because the pain it was. But now, with jQuery, I've become a very confident and happy javascript programmer. The rest is history...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Collett Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:30 AM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: [jQuery] When / how did you find out about jQuery? I've used it since at least January 2005 (at least that was the first time I emailed John about a bug when he was first working on it), but not as much as I do now. I first found out about his coding skills when following the addEvent coding contest (QuirksBlog - http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/coding_techniques/contest/index.html ) - which he won of course. Incidentally, jQuery doesn't use his winning code, but Dean Edwards' code (with a few modifications) and doesn't even use the W3c (or Microsoft's) method of adding events. You could still select elements by a CSS expression and do basic manipulation on the results (filtering, toggling, adding class names, adding content etc), and attach (but not execute) events as well as create plugins. It was also under an 'Attribution, Share Alike License' and contained no indication of SVN revision (it may not have even been under source control for all I know). It is bigger and better since then and from a glance over the source, pretty much a rewrite too. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
