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No More Page Refreshes: use jQuery! Here's an open apology to users of web sites I helped build: “Sorry I made you suffer through unnecessary page refreshes.” That's the first thing that popped into my head after learning about jQuery earlier this year. jQuery is a powerful yet unobtrusive JavaScript library with a lousy name. It's concise, very readable syntax has me exciting about writing JavaScript again. It's unobtrusiveness makes it easy to add rich behavior—such as background form submissions—to web applications with very little modification of existing code. Being unobtrusive is particularly important when you are working with a large code base, or where extensive refactoring just isn't going to get funding. My boss is not going to give me 4 weeks to go back and add some visual goodness to an existing site. But I might get 4 hours, and that's where jQuery can help.