Google has open sourced their internal JavaScript library under the name Closure. You can download the library using any svn client by pointing to http://closure-library.goog... and getting everything locally into a closure-library-read-only folder. All your custom html/js can then reside next to this folder. To use the framework you have to load the base.js into your document. <script src="closure-library-read-o... Additionally you can import specific ......
I Just finished reading Learning jQuery 1.3 by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg. This book provides a really indepth overview of jQuery along with many real world code samples. Its very well written and talks about all necessary topics from getting you started to Selectors, Events, Effects, DOM Manipulation, AJAX, Table Manipulation, Forms with Function, Shufflers and Rotators, Using Plugins etc. It also talks about advanced topics like extending jQuery and writing your own plugins and contributing ......