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Pretty Impressed with jQuery

JQuery Framework

I've been building a little visualization based on ZingChart, and using jQuery as the general-purpose support library which I've come to realize is simply amazing, and deserving of the acceptance it's received. The code to do a simple AJAX request is amazingly simple:

  $.getJSON(url, function(data) {
    parse_series(data);
    redraw();
  });

where the code in the block is an anonymous function that runs on the return data which will be called data in the block. Very slick. I remember what I had to do to get this working in Chrome a few years ago… it was not pretty.

But there's so much more as well. I think I'm a convert. If I end up doing more javascript pages, I'm going to use jQuery and even if I end up using Google Visualizations, I'll use jQuery to get the data and do some of the nastier stuff.

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