Thank you John Resig and the jQuery team
It's often said that programming is the art of simplifying the complex.
Well, John Resig and his team have done a great job of simplifying Javascript by creating the jQuery framework. Javascript is a programming language that, among other things, let's us modify the browser window you are now looking at. But Javascript can be a little fussy, especially if you take into account that there are several types of browsers in use around the world.
So jQuery provides a simplified way of writing Javascript. Javascript programs that took 50 lines before can take 10 lines in jQuery.
This is a crude comparison, but it's little like if you were trying to learn Chinese and someone came along and reduced the number of words you needed to learn by 70%.
We've just finished speeding up our front page with jQuery. Thanks John.