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    Despite Microsoft strong vote of confidence to support jQuery, don't expect to see Resign wind up in Redmond working for the software giant. "I'll be staying at Mozilla -- this doesn't affect my position there ... Microsoft will just be using (and supporting) the framework. We won't, explicitly, be lending any assistance -- at least not more so than we do for any of our other users (bug fixes, performance improvements). By the same token we will analyze any patches or contributions that we receive from them and deem to worthy of the project, or not." Indeed, the jQuery team still has complete control of the project and will continue to drive it based upon feedback from all our users, Resig said. Full Article at Malaysia Sun
    I'll be staying at Mozilla -- this doesn't affect my position there ... Microsoft will just be using (and supporting) the framework. We won't, explicitly, be lending any assistance -- at least not more so than we do for any of our other users (bug fixes, performance improvements). By the same token we will analyze any patches or contributions that we receive from them and deem to worthy of the project, or not.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
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Microsoft Adopts Open-Source jQuery JavaScript Library
  1. Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  2. As with any contribution that comes in to the jQuery project itll be closely analyzed, reviewed, and accepted or rejected, based upon its merits, by the jQuery development team -- no free ride will be given
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  3. One thing to consider, as well: This is the first time that Microsoft will be providing support for a non-Microsoft or an Open Source project. They really like the jQuery project and want to make sure that it succeeds.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  4. Going forward we'll use jQuery as one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, as well as to implement new Ajax server-side helper methods for ASP.NET MVC ... New features we add to ASP.NET AJAX (like the new client template support) will be designed ...
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  5. A significant level of testing will be added to the project in this respect ... The jQuery test suite is already integrated into the test suites of Mozilla and Opera and this move will see a significant level of extra testing being done on Internet Explorer and WebKit - above-and-beyond what is already ...
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  6. We're quite excited that Microsoft and Nokia have decided to become active parts of the community
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  7. We will also extend Microsoft product support to jQuery beginning later this year, which will enable developers and enterprises to call and open jQuery support cases 24x7 with Microsoft PSS [Product Support Services]
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  8. Visual Studio 2008 has very nice JavaScript intellisense support that can be made richer by the inclusion of comments for methods in 3rd party libraries. Today you can search the web and find intellisense-enabled jQuery files hacked together by the community, but we intend to offer official support for ...
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago

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