Rocking jQuery book I won in the raffle!
Tonight I attended the first Denver Meetup for jQuery enthusiast. It was a great oppourtunity to meet others who are interested in jQuery and discuss a wide range ideas and solutions. There was no surprise that there was a number of Drupal'ers in the crowd, including myself, considering the amount of jQuery is used in Drupal itself.
Great take aways of the meeting are:
- jQuery is used on 25% of the websites on the internet
- Its growing fast, and has become much larger than YUI or Mootools
- When developing an enterprise site host the jquery.js file locally, else consider using their CDN hosted file which I belive is "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" more info on this.
- ThemeRoller is badass and I will be checking into it further
- Builtwith.com is a great site to see what other sites are built on
- Performance: jQuery is faster at selecting #IDs then .classes
Links to the meetup:
