The development team also added support for making relative changes to CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) values, made improvements to the Deferred object that can simplify more complex use cases, and more.

Developed in 2006, jQuery is a server-side cross-browser library that provides a simpler developer interface for commonly-used operations that can be carried out in JavaScript, such as handling events, providing document navigation aids, or sending data back to the server.

JQuery appears to be the most widely used JavaScript library, , according to an ongoing survey from W3Techs. JQuery has been crucial of Ajax-styled Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

Microsoft jQuery in its Visual Studio integrated development environment. Adobe's Dreamweaver 5.5 includes a version of jQuery for mobile applications.

Now that jQuery 1.6 is finished, the development team what changes users would like to see in version 1.7.