Brennan’s Blog

Now that ASP.NET MVC has been released and jQuery is included it is time for every ASP.NET developer to start embracing jQuery. I personally have been using jQuery and other JavaScript libraries for the past few years. Ever since JavaScript became popular again thanks to the likes of the Google Mail interface in 2004 and the naming of AJAX by Jesse James Garrett in 2005.

With JavaScript becoming a central piece of a modern web application, I decided that I had to start taking it seriously. For years I only used JavaScript to enhance a page and ensured that if the user had JavaScript disabled the page would still work as required. It was time consuming to add a lot of JavaScript and it was often not worthwhile. Starting in 2004 I started seeing more and more sites start building sites which simply would not work without JavaScript. I decided that since I plan to do web development for many more years to come that I had to learn how this was all done, and I found that these modern sites were leveraging JavaScript libraries that would abstract away browser differences and reduce the effort necessary to implement a rich experience.

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