It's hard to overstate how great jQuery is. I'm always surprised at how easy it makes things. I remember the bad old days, spending hours researching the differ

It's hard to overstate how great jQuery is. I'm always surprised at how easy it makes things. I remember the bad old days, spending hours researching the different ways to reference dom objects, trying to find a method that worked in more than one browser. With jQuery, you really can just code it once, and it works everywhere.