Happy Independence Day, readers, and let's also remember, and be thankful for, the independence jQuery gives us from worrying about browser incompatibilities and other problems. John Resig, I'll put some extra meat on the BBQ today for you in thanks! So with that, let's look at some interesting jQuery related links from the past few weeks.

The first link I want to share is important enough to stand out by itself: Intermediate jQuery. This is a very in-depth article about jQuery and performance. I learned some pretty important things here, especially in regards to selector performance. If you do any jQuery development at all, I highly recommend reading this.

• Like the iPhone? Love the UI used there? You can emulate part of it now with the iPhone-style checkboxes plugin.
• jQuery Tools is a very interesting, and very slick, set of UI tools. It mentions that it sets itself apart from jQuery UI by focusing more on UI items that help simpler web pages, whereas jQueryUI (in their opinion) is more focused on RIAs. That's an distinction I'm not sure I'd make, but the library is very well done and worth a look. I'm actually considering a few blog posts on it for examples later in the month.
• Ok, so I know you use Firebug, right? FireQuery is a Firebug plugin that adds additional jQuery support. From what I see, it looks to be a nice addition and worth adding to your browser.
• As much as I've used jQuery recently, I haven't dug much into how it works. This blog entry, Dissecting jQuery text(), is a rather cool look into one of jQuery's features.
• And on that same blog, here is a good look at jQuery and SELECT tag manipulations.

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