Michael J. Ross writes "Of all Web technologies, JavaScript may have the most checkered past mdash; first heralded as a powerful object-oriented language for jazzing up Web pages, but later condemned as a source of spammy pop-up windows and horrid animations polluting websites everywhere. Yet during the past several years, Web designers and developers are increasingly using JavaScript unobtrusively, for client-site interactivity mdash; as a supplement to server-side functionality, not a replacement, and built upon standards-compliant (X)HTML and CSS. As a result, the once-derided language is now enjoying a true resurgence in interest and use. This has been bolstered by the proliferation of JavaScript libraries, of which jQuery is clearly the front runner. Web programmers seeking to get up to speed on this exciting resource, can turn to Learning jQuery 1.3: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.pa href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/01/11/1441233/Learning-JQuery-13?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/11/1441233"/a/ppa href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/01/11/1441233/Learning-JQuery-13?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3TYcUhjgpwn4t50CEePGJLmoEH4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3TYcUhjgpwn4t50CEePGJLmoEH4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3TYcUhjgpwn4t50CEePGJLmoEH4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3TYcUhjgpwn4t50CEePGJLmoEH4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/Dakf6DwCzJM" height="1" width="1"/
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