Preface to the Second Edition
It’s been two years since the first edition of jQuery in Action was published. Was it really necessary to update the book so soon?
Absolutely!
Compared to the steady world of server-side languages such as Java, the client-side technologies of the web move at a mighty fast clip. And jQuery isn’t eating anyone’s dust; rather, it’s at the forefront of the rush!
The jQuery team releases a major new version of the library just about every year (lately, striving for every January), in addition to the minor updates that are made throughout the calendar year. That means that there have been numerous minor releases, and two major versions since the publication of the first edition, which was written against jQuery 1.2. ...
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