An Overview Jquery
Jquery turns the web technology has most interactive and its unique features are push the developers to hang of it. Its popularity can be attributed to the creation of a dynamic web page, speed, simplicity and it's versatility.
Who Uses Jquery
Jquery play the biggest role on the web. It is used in many companies like Microsoft, Google Chrome, Firefox, IBM, Netflix, Sony and more. The Following List is some of the technologies that possess jquery.
Google Chrome add-ons, Chrome OS apps
Mozilla XUL apps
Firefox extensions, Firefox OS apps
Windows 8 Store apps
BlackBerry 10 WebWorks apps
PhoneGap/Cordova apps.
Also, Read Best Jquery Interview Questions for Freshers
Browsers Supported by Jquery
jquery supports the following browsers
IE 6.0+
FF 2.0+
Safari 3.0+
Chrome
Opera 9.0+
Jquery is a cross-platform library. It has good functionality which helps to run exactly the same in all browsers.
Version of Jquery
Jquery is an open source software. So a needy can easily get the jquery. It possesses two major versions, that are as follows
Production Version
It is a minified or compressed version. So we can't make the changes.
Development Version
It hasn't compressed so then we can easily make changes and can see how jquery works on your desired system.
It mostly used for the purpose of development and Testing. So the developer can run it into error and learn how to encounter a problem while using jquery.
How To Use Jquery
Installation- Local
Download Jquery by clicking on this link http://www.jquery.com and get the latest version of jquery file.(Ex:jquery 1.3.2.min.js)
Copy the .js file into your root web directory Ex: www.test.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js
In your HTML file Ex: index.html between the head tags include the following code, and then JQuery will be installed.
Ex:
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-3.3.1.min.js"> </script>
Installation-CDN Based
First download your desired jquery version file into browser file.
Copy the Url and put it between the script's src attribute.
Ex:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"> </script>
CDN Installation Advantage
CDN based installation has many advantages
In CDN based installation we can include jQuery library into your HTML code directly from Content Delivery Network.
Google and Microsoft both have CDNs that are free for personal and commercial use.
CDN based installation has all the capability to run most browser's technology at precisely.
