Supporting: Contact Hour 14.

At the end of this lecture you should be able to answer these questions:

1. What features are typically provided by a general purpose JavaScript library?
2. What features are typically provided by a specialized JavaScript library?
3. How is a JavaScript library typically loaded?
4. Why is is recommended that most scripts and libraries are loaded at the end of an HTML document?
5. List the main sections of the jQuery API
6. What is the difference between selection and filtering in jQuery?
7. Would it be a good idea to use jQuery's CSS selection as a replacement for style sheets?
8. What are the two ways to assign an event handler to an element with jQuery?
9. What attributes and methods does the jQuery event object have?
10. What does the jQuery function return?
11. How does the object returned by the jQuery function allow chaining of functions?
12. Give an example of jQuery's animation method.
13. What widgets does the standard JQuery UI library contain?
14. What advantages does jQuery mobile offer the developer of mobile web apps?
15. Why is jQuery code usually embedded in an anonymous function passed as a parameter to the jQuery(“document”).ready() function?
16. What advantage does loading a JavaScript library from a CDN have?

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