JAB_Creations - 7:30 pm on Oct 25, 2012 (gmt 0)

Yeah, don't use jQuery or any other frameworks, you'll rob yourself of learning anything meaningful, bloat the browser, unintentionally gimp the DOM with innerHTML which you should never ever use and introduce so many problems you'll be stuck in an infinite loop of suck.

Also there is no such mime as "text/javascript" though it is required for IE8 and older and Opera 8.x (but not 7.x/older or 9.x/newer) for those browsers to correctly execute scripts. Once you've used DOM object detection have the server serve application/javascript for compliant browsers and text/javascript if you plan on supporting legacy browsers.

- John