Oh, sorry! I wasn't trying to go specific about the detail, just some general feeling I have towards jQuery. I guess I'd better explain why I feel so. I was e

Oh, sorry! I wasn't trying to go specific about the detail, just some general feeling I have towards jQuery. I guess I'd better explain why I feel so. I was experimenting with JavaScript a couple of years ago before jQuery/Prototype/etc took off. IE6 was the absolutely major browser back then, but I was expecting JavaScript to work both in Firefox and IE6. You couldn't imagine how frustrated I felt trying to get anything work cross-platform flawlessly. Then I came across jQuery. I think it was still in an "alpha" stage then -- the whole idea was awesome, but with many bugs (I even worked one out and had John patched it with my code). I was amazed at the way John solved the problems of JavaScript (personally I do not like JavaScript), saving a lot of trouble for me. Later I moved on and was not involved with JavaScript for quite a while. But I still kept an eye on the evolution of jQuery. I was really excited by the animation effects jQuery provides (how could one possibly achieve that in such a language with broken support? He must be a genius!). As for the 1.3 release, I think "future detection" probably solves the cross-platform issue once and for all. That's what I meant when I said the word "patched". Forgive my broken English -- it's not my mother tongue :|