If you use Javascript, JQuery is a great framework to speed up your coding. It’s essentially a collection of really convenient shortcuts. It does more, since JQuery also handles a lot of browser compatibility issues. So, you don’t have to go through your JQuery code to update it for new browsers, all you have to do is download the new version of JQuery, and your old commands will learn new tricks.

Ah, speaking of downloading JQuery, you just might want to understand how JQuery works if you use it. The first time I tried to do this, I simply clicked on my JQuery src file link:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://peter-ajtai.com/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>

… and this is what I saw:

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