I don't know if this is said often enough as I'm a relative newbie to jQuery, but I'd just like to say a big THANK YOU!! to all those involved in the jQuery project - developers, documentation writers, contributors to this group, and anyone else I've forgotten. Whilst, for me at least, jQuery was a steep learning curve despite/because of my programming background, it really is a very elegant framework with a hell of a lot of work put into it, which saves us web designers/ developers having to write stuff from scratch in JS (then finding it falls over in IE), and I for one really, really appreciate the development effort that's been put in.
A big extra thanks to those involved in jQuery UI, who've saved me a hell of a lot of work. These days managers and users want super-cuddly interfaces à la Facebook which do everything for the user save scratch their arse for them, and it's a 'mare putting that sort of stuff together from scratch in JS and CSS *and* making it cross-platform, standards-compliant and accessible. The Theme Roller in UI really has made my life a lot easier, and the interfaces knock the socks off managers and end-users. Cheers Fred
