When I looked jQuery last week, this simplistic code made me fascinating. Last whole week, I thought I wanted to change from JavaScript to jQuery for some effect such as hide and show part of list page of AStoryToTell. Now I changed my mind to keep focusing on JavaScript because it was the main purpose of this subject that I am going to keep the basic which I am going to write line by line so I can achieve some level of confident on writing code.
jQuery is a “jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
JavaScript library is “A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_library
AJAX is “Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML), or AJAX, is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.[1] Data is retrieved using the XMLHttpRequest object or through the use of Remote Scripting in browsers that do not support it. Despite the name, the use of JavaScript, XML, or its asynchronous use is not required.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
I did not considered to learn Ajax because it seems too much advanced technology to me, last week what I learn was that Ajax is a interrelated web development technique which creates an interactive website. Therefore, the website can perform some advanced effects which related with data on server side. It is a fantastic technology. And then some people developed JavaScript library, which is a pre-written JavaScript functions. And then some people created jQuery which can provide sophisticated effect with such a simple code when the libraries were uploaded on the same folder. Usually it interact between JavaScript and HTML, such as hide and show paragraphes.
It was fun to learn and it will be much better if I using jQuery because it can be written in such a simple way. However in this project I will keep to lean JavaScript some effect on website.
