> I don't understand why the jQuery widgets are free;
what's the relation
> between them and DWCS4?
DW is a commercial software product that allows you to create
web sites by
editing text files such as HTML, CSS, and JS.
jQuery is an open source javascript library.
The relation ship is that you can download the jQuery files
and add them to
the other files in your site and use that javascript. There's
nothing native
to the DW UI that enables that, but you can certainly use any
code you want
within the code view of your application.
In terms of a relationship with the jQuery dev team and Adobe
corporate, I
don't think there is one.
That said, the jQuery team *has* made a relationship with
Microsoft to help
Microsoft bundle jQuery with Visual Studio and interact
natively with
asp.net controls:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx
So, perhaps there are talks underway to develop a similar
relationship with
Adobe.
Now, there are js libraries that do have close relationships
with specific
application frameworks. For instance, the delicious .js
library is closely
related to the RoR dev framework. They are separate, but have
lots of
built-in ways to talk to each other directly. The Adobe
analogy would likely
be DW as the 'framwork' (admittedly, I'm stretching the
concept there) and
Spry would be the js library that integrates with it.
-Darrel
None. JQuery is open source.