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Microsoft’s recent decision to include jQuery in the ASP.NET development stack is pretty exciting news. I’ve been using jQuery for a while now, and all I can say about it is that it makes JavaScript fun. You can use it to add some pretty impressive effects to your web pages with only a couple of lines of code, and you have less to worry about as far as the idiosyncrasies of cross-browser detection are concerned. In the past year or so it’s become pretty popular and even something of a de facto standard in many ways, probably best described as JavaScript’s answer to Linq. If you’re a web developer and you haven’t yet come across it, I really would encourage you to check it out — you’ll love it, even if you hate JavaScript.