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The Notes What Spawned JQuery (2005)
- barredo 17y ago"Posted: August 22nd, 2005" Edit: Ok, now the title is edited.
- simonw 17y agoI sometimes think that my getElementsBySelector script (which inspired Behavior, which in turn inspired jQuery) may end up being the most significant 130 lines of code I'll ever write. http://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/25/getElementsBySelector/ http://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/25/getElementsBySelector/
- jeresig 17y agoAbsolutely. The jQuery test suite still uses the original markup from your script's test suite. I wrote my selector implementation at about the same time that Dean Edwards wrote his (but he published first). You were the absolute first, though. Major kudos to you, for sure.
- jeresig 17y agoI just remembered that I had a full list of those whose work I used as inspiration on the original jquery.com site (including Simon Willison, Dean Edwards, and the Behaviour library). http://web.archive.org/web/20060203025710/http://jquery.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060203025710/http://jquery.com/
- Legion 17y agoI'm so glad to see Devo didn't get left off the list!
- losvedir 17y agoWhoa, where is submitter from? Interesting dialect of English where "what" works like "that".
- derefr 17y agoIt was likely unintentional here, but that dialect is Middle English; it sounds like "what" to our modern ears (so it's eggcorned into it a bit), but the word is really "wot." As far as I can search, wot is just defined as "know", but it seems to get used in place of "that" fairly often despite that definition, even by Shakespeare, so it's not like it's an unofficial use. A clear example of the eggcorned form is the title of the fifth chapter of the Poignant Guide: "Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream."