On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On tis, 2011-12-13 at 09:11 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
>> Personal story on this. When my book came out, I was trying to take
>> the #1 spot on Packt's bestseller list, even if it was just for a day.
>> Never made it higher than #2. The #1 spot the whole time was "jQuery
>> 1.4 Reference Guide", discussing the most popular JavaScript library
>> out there. And you know what? Over a year later, it's *still
>> there*.
>
> I would guess that that's largely because there are a lot more people
> developing web sites than people tuning databases, and also because the
> on-board documentation of javascript and jquery is poor, at least for
> their audience.
jquery being used in as much as 40%+ of all websites by some estimates
is surely a contributing factor.
merlin