jQuery.convert++

Readers of articles I wrote for InformIT have probably noticed that I've avoided using high-level JavaScript libraries and relied on thin browser abstraction layers: Sarissa for AJAX and X library for cross-browser DOM/DHTML compatibility.

Recently I've decided to try jQuery and got persuaded within a day. My new projects are using jQuery ... and you'll see a number of reasons in my future blog posts. Repetitive operations that I had to code previously became much simpler and more streamlined with jQuery functions.