jQuery: new lightweight javascript library

John Resig, the man behind RSS to JSON and lots of other great Javascript projects, came up with a Javascript framework that’s light, fast and elegant as well.

jQuery is a Javascript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing Javascript code should be fun. jQuery acheives this goal by taking common, repetitive, tasks, stripping out all the unnecessary markup, and leaving them short, smart and understandable. A quick example:

$("p.surprise").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");

Quick Facts:

• jQuery supports CSS 1-3 and basic XPath.
• jQuery is about 10kb in size.
• jQuery works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.