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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.

The Web today is very different to what it was in 1994, when the W3C was established. Article looks at early history of the Web & uses Pace Layering theory to show new developments & role of W3C. 2008 article.

This article provides a practical demonstration of each technology. Three complete examples walk through the process of building an application in Silverlight, AIR, and JavaFX, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each one.

I am doing a lot of customer presentations these days, so am getting much "constructive criticism" about the number of confusing buzzwords on the WaveMaker web site.

... about time too :-)