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JQuery finds its way into Microsoft and Nokia stacks

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Wow, that's a pretty big deal. It's totally unlike Microsoft to ship a not-invented-here API set, as-in, in the box.

Scott Guthrie's team is one of the most forward-looking groups at Microsoft, and I think the developer division makes the best Microsoft products to begin with: Visual Studio and a few essential plugins is a much better IDE than Windows is a consumer operating system.

What plugins do you consider essential for Visual Studio?

Resharper

At a high level, jQuery has two main things going for it:

1) It has awesome functionality. 2) It's indistinguishably close to being browser-independent

It looks like MS has adopted jQuery for (1), and their developers will get (2) for free.

Of course, (2) may also have figured into MS's (apparent) decision to adopt. If that's the case, more power to 'em. Nothing would please me more than seeing (one division of) MS get a clue.

This is great news! I was just about to post this but you beat me to it.

A good follow up post about it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and...

And a post from Scott Hanselman about it: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/jQueryToShipWithASPNETMVCAndVi...

And the original announcement on the jQuery blog: http://jquery.com/blog/2008/09/28/jquery-microsoft-nokia/

Congratulations to the whole jQuery team. They are constantly amassing success stories and they could not be any more deserving. They put out a great library and foster one of the nicest developer communities on the web.

I think Microsoft is offsetting the pain developers face in trying to make web pages work in IE/JScript by promoting jQuery. Without a library like jQuery/Prototype its really difficult to get IE to do what you want. Good news.

I really hope they make IE conform to standards.

Very cool. JQuery is one of the primary reasons I really started to enjoy JavaScript.

Fantastic news. MS's libraries are crude and far behind the existing open source alternatives.

What 'libraries' are you talking about in specific? Or are you just rehashing stuff you read on slashdot?

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