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A Headline That Isn't
Microsoft Adding jQuery to Visual Studio
I have suggested in the past that .NET was really nothing more than just an overcomplicated shell to Ajax, a methodology more than a technology. This, of course, pisses off the Microsoft apologists, but how else can you explain the ability to write .NET apps in just about any language you care to? C#, vbScript, javascript, JScript...the libraries (and I'll admit to talking out of my ass, here) really just encapsulate what the Thinking World is already doing for free.
If you're a developer who uses JQuery for your apps, keep a local copy updated. Mark my words: Microsoft will buy what you're using for free, close it off, and sell it back to you.
And the computer world will, once again, marvel.
(For the record, I write my code longhand. I don't need no steenking Visual Studio.)
I have suggested in the past that .NET was really nothing more than just an overcomplicated shell to Ajax, a methodology more than a technology. This, of course, pisses off the Microsoft apologists, but how else can you explain the ability to write .NET apps in just about any language you care to? C#, vbScript, javascript, JScript...the libraries (and I'll admit to talking out of my ass, here) really just encapsulate what the Thinking World is already doing for free.
If you're a developer who uses JQuery for your apps, keep a local copy updated. Mark my words: Microsoft will buy what you're using for free, close it off, and sell it back to you.
And the computer world will, once again, marvel.
(For the record, I write my code longhand. I don't need no steenking Visual Studio.)