“I did a search for the name ‘jQuery’ and found the Java ‘JQuery’ project, which hadn’t been updated since 2004. I assumed that it was defunct and decided to co-opt the name.

Version 1.0 of jQuery is now available under either an MIT or GPL open source license. Resig did not have an exact figure on how many people have been using jQuery, which has been available in a ...

Tech Tech Industry Microsoft taps JQuery for Visual Studio The software giant will be offering and supporting the JQuery JavaScript library. Nokia, too, has taken a shine to the open-source project.