Tane Piper wrote:
I noticed his site has a LOT of articles going back to 2002 (infact while looking at the article, I found one about OpenID that really helped me out).Fantastic to know we have friends in high places :)
From what I remember Simon Willison was the first to come up with a documentGetElementsBySelector function... he could be seen as jQuery's ancestor :-)
On the earlier jQuery page John also mentioned him as inspiration, but I can't find it anymore.
--Klaus