（1）前言——（6）前言

In 2005, inspired by pioneers in the field such as Dean Edwards and Simon Willison, John Resig put together a set of functions to make it easy to programmatically find elements on a web page and assign behaviors to them. By the time he first publicly announced his project in January 2006, he had added DOM modification and basic animations. He gave it the name jQuery to emphasize the central role of finding, or querying, parts of a web page and acting on them with JavaScript. In the few short years since then, jQuery has grown in its feature set, improved in its performance, and gained widespread adoption by many of the most popular sites on the Internet. While Resig remains the lead developer of the project, jQuery has blossomed, in true open-source fashion, to the point where it now boasts a core team of top-notch JavaScript developers, as well as a vibrant community of thousands of developers.

在2005年，受到这一领域的工程师比如Dean Edwards和Simon Willison的启发，John Resig将a set of 函数放到一起以便于在网页上程序化的找到元素以及给他绑定事件。在他于2006年1月份第一次公开的声明了他的项目后，他已经添加了DOM控制和基础的时间。他为之起名为jQuery，目的是强调它的核心角色——查找、查询网页中的一部分，同时通过js来操控他们。在那之后的短短几年中，jQuery已经他的特点中发展了很多，提高了他的表现能力，同时被很多互联网上著名的站点广泛采用。随着Resig依然是这个项目的领头开发者，jQuery已经兴盛起来，以一种真正开源的姿态，以自己拥有一个顶级js开发者队伍和拥有数千开发者的充满生气的社区而荣。

The jQuery JavaScript library can enhance your websites regardless of your background. It provides a wide range of features, an easy-to-learn syntax, and robust cross-platform compatibility in a single compact file. What's more, hundreds of plugins have been developed to extend jQuery's functionality, making it an essential tool for nearly every client-side scripting occasion.

jquery可以加强你的网站而不管你的背景，他用一份简洁的文件提供了大量的特性，容易学习的语法，健壮的跨平台兼容性。另外，数百计的插件已经被开发出来去加强jquery的功能，使他成为了几乎所有客户端脚本环境的基本工具。

Learning jQuery Third Editionprovides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages—even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled. This book guides you past the pitfalls associated with Ajax, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features, and provides you with a brief reference to the jQuery library to return to again and again.

Learning jQuery Third Edition提供了对jQuery概念的文雅的介绍，允许你为你的网页添加交互和动画——即使之前书写js的尝试已经使你变得迷惑了。这本书带领你通过Ajax，事件，效果的陷阱，告诉你高级的js语言的特征，为你提供一个清晰简明的jquery库的认识。