httpwebwitch - 6:05 pm on Dec 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

Let me offer my congratulations to JQuery for winning .net magazine's "Open Source Application of the Year" award.
Quite an accomplishment, considering they were up against Firefox and Wordpress.

source: http://blog.jquery.com/2009/12/03/jquery-wins-net-magazine-award/ [blog.jquery.com]

Perhaps this win should not be so surprising. Both FF and WP are well-known open-source projects with huge followings, and in a way they're both old news. Neither has been immune to harsh criticism in the past year, FireFox for it's recent bloatware-like performance, and WordPress for their ubiquitous security problems. But JQuery? It's really hard to say any thing bad about JQuery.

btw, Wordpress won last year.

Kudos to Rey Bango (JQuery Blogger) for acknowledging some of the other very fine JS frameworks in their space:

I think the impact of this reaches further than just the jQuery project and validates how important well-managed JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Dojo, MooTools et al. have become to application development.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

High fives to everyone on the JQuery team, and to everyone who has contributed to it!