Friday, March 29, 2013

What is JQuery and Why

Today everyone in technical world is talking about jQuery, javascript simultaneously. But many few of us are aware of it. Here i'm going to discuss what is jQuery and why we should use it, when we already have javascript which is such a powerful scripting language.

JQuery is nothing, but an open source javascript library. One who is much familiar with javascript, HTML, DOM and CSS will hardly take any time to understand JQuery and to get used to it.

Now the question comes why we should use it. So, here is your answer:

The work that we till now get done through javascript, that could be done much easily without much coding and complexities through JQuery. Yes, all that we used to do with javascript, that could be done with JQuery. 

Apart from it, we all know that javascript has many browser issues while running, but the developers of JQuery has taken into consideration all the browsers issues and developed it with cross browser functions so that it may run easily on any browser.

Again, apart from browser incompatibilities, javascript was unable to decorate a web page or to animate any object on the webpage. JQuery aims to ease all these problems and in addition, there is a very dynamic community that adds more-advanced components based on JQuery.

Again, a modern web page is always incomplete without any Ajax functionality and doing this using javascript includes lots of code and different for different  browsers. While JQuery introduces two simple functions for get and post requests using which implementing Ajax has become a piece of cake.

Next we will be discussing Introduction to JQuery.