>The nice thing with jQuery is that it's open source, which means you don't depend on one guy or one company to develop it further; it's not going out of business tomorrow. And you don't have to use the whole at all - you can just see how they did this or that and use the tricks you like. And I'm saying that as someone who writes builders for breakfast, and code generators between meals. I am firmly in the roll-your-own camp, simply because most of the tools out there are designed around requirements different from mine, and are mostly too generic to address my needs. It's with jQuery that I have changed my mind, it just saved me tons of time. True, I didn't have any js framework to begin with, but seeing all the things it does, I wonder whether I'd ever have the time to build one.

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