JQuery: About

JQuery

JQuery is a free, open-source JavaScript library. Some sources cite it as the most widely used JavaScript library. It can be used for a variety of purposes:

  • HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation
  • Event handling
  • CSS animations
  • Ajax applications

JQuery is also intended to help provide cross-browser compatibility as well as extensibility.

It was originally created by John Resig. Resig graduated with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. He has worked for the Khan Academy and the Mozilla Corporation. He is also involved with Processing.js, EnvJS, TestSwarm, Sizzle, and FUEL.

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