In a trend analysis of 17,000 top websites, jQuery now deployed more than Adobe Flash
DENVER, Co. Aug. 24, 2011 – appendTo, the company dedicated to jQuery, the world’s most popular JavaScript Library, released data today showing that the percentage of websites that have jQuery deployed has officially surpassed the percentage of websites that have Adobe Flash deployed. Statistics compiled by HTTP Archive (http://httparchive.org), which analyze the world’s top 17,000 websites, show that 48 percent of the sites use jQuery, while 47 percent use Flash.
“Developers are choosing jQuery over Flash for new development,” said Mike Hostetler, co-founder and CEO of appendTo. “This data confirms a trend that’s been a couple years in the making. More and more website developers are choosing jQuery and JavaScript over Flash and the rate at which this transformation is occurring is only accelerating.”
jQuery is an open source library that makes it quicker and easier to build JavaScript Web pages and Web applications. Often with jQuery you can use a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code.
JavaScript is a scripting language that allows Web authors to create dynamic pages that respond to user interaction. JavaScript is widely used in browsers, mobile browsers, PDF’s and Internet televisions. jQuery, built on top...