jQuery is very nice

For the past week or so i’ve been playing around with jQuery at work since discovering it when searching for themes/plugins/etc for here and I have to say that it’s pretty nice.  It really takes the pain out of writing some pretty nifty javascript code for all sorts of stuff.  The best bit about it is the way you can chain the methods together to make compact and easy to understand code that does in a few lines what you may have had to previously write 10+ lines.

I’ve been testing it in a dev version of one of my apps at work trying to integrate it into the existing session and template management i wrote last year and it works pretty well.  I’m also loving the way that the app is now seeing signs of progressive enhancement using the jQuery functions without any impact to the functionailty for anyone that can/wont run the javascript.

All in all…very nice!