Slides from a three hour tutorial presented at XTech 2008 on the 6th of May. See also <a href="http://simonwillison.net/static/2008/xtech/">the supporting notes</a>.
5. We will cover
• The what and why of unobtrusive JavaScript
• Why use a library at all?
• Why pick jQuery?
• How jQuery handles...
• DOM manipulation
• Event handling
• Animation
• Ajax