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Why is learning JavaScript better than just learning jQuery?
jQuery is a JavaScript library. When you write code using jQuery you are programming in JavaScript. This line:
[... 141 words]How do you change page content and URL without reloading the whole page?
This can only be done using JavaScript. You use XMLHttpRequest to pull in new information from the server (also known as Ajax—most people use a JavaScript library such as jQuery to handle this) and then use the HTML5 history API, in particular the pushState method, to update the URL.
[... 133 words]What are the ways to create custom jQuery effects?
You don’t need any extra tools or code, you just need to master jQuery’s built-in .animate() API: http://api.jquery.com/animate/
[... 34 words]What are the reasons that make jQuery more popular than MooTools?
MooTools is the only major JavaScript library that still thinks extending the prototype of built-in JavaScript objects is a good idea.
[... 44 words]If I have data that loads using json / JavaScript will it get indexed by Google?
No. Personally I dislike sites with content that is only accessible through JavaScript, but if you absolutely insist on doing this you should look in to implementing the Google Ajax Crawling mechanism: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxc...
[... 56 words]What are all the advantages of jQuery?
jQuery’s API is astonishingly well designed. It’s extremely consistent once you learn its rules (e.g. methods often take one argument to read a value and two arguments to set one, e.g. .css(), .attr(), .width(), .height()) and its functionality is so complete that the last few major releases of the library have hardly added any new methods at all.
[... 166 words]What is the best lightweight jQuery tooltip plugin? Why?
Last time I went looking, I was very impressed by qTip: http://craigsworks.com/projects/...
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