Could it be? Is it true?!
Both Microsoft and Nokia have lent support to John Resig’s open source JavaScript library, jQuery. MS will be writing their ASP.NET AJAX controls using the library (which is great, as I’ve had many problems trying to debug clashes between their JS code and mine in the past), and Nokia will be writing a bunch of their apps within the browser on their mobile phones (WebKit rendering engine), including Nokia Maps, which I’ve had the fortune of working on a particular version of recently.
For a while now, IBM and AOL have lent support to Dojo, which is a rather different beast to jQuery, in my opinion.
With the big players getting involved and adding back to these projects, credence to the ideal of cross-browser JavaScript and JS components that ‘just work’ is becoming ever greater.
jQuery is a great library, in my opinion, and the team that work on it are trying to push the browser for all it’s worth. On behalf of all the Web application developers out there, we salute you for your efforts, Resig & co.