I currently work on other sites at the bbc and can tell you that jquery is used on quite a number of the bbc's pages.
Being the friendly sorts that they are, the BBC has directives to support some older browsers that jquery does not target explicitly, so the bbc are developing their own internal library to handle many of the things jquery does. I dare say they have their work cut out tackling some browsers on their hit list but the developers I met are determined to try. The result cannot be as lean or as easy as jquery but it works well and they're putting alot of thought into it. They are driven by a different set of priorities. In time, the homepage may well be ported to their own library but jquery will continue to be used around various other sites. I suppose it is much easier to recruit jquery people too! Cheers, George On Mar 3, 4:57 pm, Sam Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The beta test has been up for a while and looks like it uses Interface > (http://interface.eyecon.ro/) for the interactivity. Not jQuery UI > unfortunately (Interface is more established though and has probably > had more testing). > > There is still some legacy code (for example they use Simon Willison's > addLoadEvent function), so not completely moved over. I think it is > only the home page that uses jQuery. > > Perhaps there are some of the editors who worked on it on this mailing > list? > > -- > Sam > > On Mar 3, 11:50 am, Dan Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > The new BBC website is using jQuery - a testament to how great jQuery > > is! Go team jQuery! > > >http://www.bbc.co.uk > > > Regards > > Dan
