At a high level, jQuery has two main things going for it: 1) It has awesome functionality. 2) It's indistinguishably close to being browser-independent It loo

At a high level, jQuery has two main things going for it: 1) It has awesome functionality. 2) It's indistinguishably close to being browser-independent It looks like MS has adopted jQuery for (1), and their developers will get (2) for free. Of course, (2) may also have figured into MS's (apparent) decision to adopt. If that's the case, more power to 'em. Nothing would please me more than seeing (one division of) MS get a clue.