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Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques
Jonathan Chaffer Karl Swedberg
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Learning jQuery 1.3
Copyright © 2009 Packt Publishing
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First published: February 2009
Production Reference: 1040209
Publishedby Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK. ISBN 978-1-847196-70-5
www.packtpub.com
Cover Image by Karl Swedberg (karl@englishrules.com)
Credits
Authors Jonathan Chaffer Karl Swedberg Production Editorial Manager Abhijeet Deobhakta
Reviewers Akash Mehta Dave Methvin Mike Alsup The Gigapedia Team
Project Team Leader Lata Basantani
Project CoordinatorLeena Purkait
Senior Acquisition Editor Douglas Paterson
Indexer Rekha Nair
Development Editor Usha Iyer
Proofreader Jeff Orloff
Technical Editor John Antony
Production Coordinator Aparna Bhagat
Editorial Team Leader Akshara Aware
Cover Work Aparna Bhagata
Foreword
I feel honored knowing that Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer undertook the task of writing LearningjQuery. As the first book about jQuery, it set the standard that other jQuery — and, really, other JavaScript books in general — have tried to match. It's consistently been one of the top selling JavaScript books since its release, in no small part due to its quality and attention to detail. I'm especially pleased that it was Karl and Jonathan who wrote the book since I already knew them so well andknew that they would be perfect for the job. Being part of the core jQuery team, I've had the opportunity to come to know Karl quite well over the past couple years, and especially within the context of his book writing effort. Looking at the end result, it's clear that his skills as both a developer and a former English teacher were perfectly designed for this singular task. I've also had theopportunity to meet both of them in person, a rare occurrence in the world of distributed Open Source projects, and they continue to be upstanding members of the jQuery community. The jQuery library is used by so many different people in the jQuery community. The community is full of designers, developers, people who have experience programming, and those who don't. Even within the jQuery team, wehave people from all backgrounds providing their feedback on the direction of the project. There is one thing that is common across all of jQuery's users, though: We are a community of developers and designers who want JavaScript development to be made simple. It's almost a cliché, at this point, to say that an open source project is communityoriented, or that a project wants to focus on helping newusers get started. But it's not just an empty gesture for jQuery; it's the liquid-oxygen fuel for the project. We actually have more people in the jQuery team dedicated to managing the jQuery community, writing documentation, or writing plugins than actually maintaining the core code base. While the health of the library is incredibly important, the community surrounding that code is the...
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