Business benefits of using JQuery

JQuery has really come on during the last 3 to 4 years, and according to Wikipedia, it is now used by a majority of the most used websites. So what’s all the fuss about? It’s all just geek talk, anyway, isn’t it?

Well, JQuery is a Javascript library that simplifies a lot of stuff that required lengthy coding in the past. While many programmers (including my team in Stylus) really love it, it does also have a solid business case.

From our experience, we’ve seen the following business benefits from using JQuery on client web software:

• JQuery is open source, so not only does it save on programming, it does so at no cost to you.

• JQuery allows your software to do more at the client (or browser) end. This is especially useful when you’d prefer to have your website pages/screens that do some work before it sends everything to the server. For many websites, this may significantly improve the response time of the pages – making your site fast and convenient.

• JQuery helps to make your site a lot cleaner, and more interactive without extensive programming. Most of our clients have been impressed with how smooth the whole site looks – something that in earlier days, could only be done using Flash and ActionScript.

• JQuery allows you to reduce the amount of client side programming. In some cases, we have seen an almost 70% reduction in the programming by using this library.

• JQuery works with all browsers, and large software platform vendors such as Microsoft and Nokia are integrating this into their software development toolkits. An added benefit is that JQuery runs on most mobile and tablet browsers as well (including iPads and iPhones, which don’t run Flash).

All in all, it’s no surprise that we now do all of our client side programming using JQuery. If you have a business problem that you think software can help solve, get in touch with us. Let us verify for you whether a software using JQuery can create the solution you’re looking for.