The Joomla! 3 core ships with jQuery, and previous Joomla! versions did not. In the past, developers like us had to include a custom call to load jQuery, whenever it was needed. Most of the time it used to throw ugly error messages, due to conflicts with other included JavaScript libraries. Finally, Joomla! 3.0 has introduced jQuery as a core feature. It is like two power houses coming together…such a bliss. Now, third party extensions no longer require to load jQuery, because it is already shipped with Joomla! 3. It saves hell lot of time to make things work for us.
Note: An online statistics says that more than 50% of the 10,000 most visited website use jQuery for better graphic representation. Continue reading
Quick tips/ facts on using jQuery, MooTools in Joomla! 3
10 Thursday Oct 2013