jquery.validate - multiple plugins with same name?

multiple plugins with same name?

I started my search for a jquery validation with a goo开发者_StackOverflow中文版gle search. The top few links lead to confusion because one page on the jquery site is a plugin authored by mfranz whereas another link leads to a plugin authored by Jörn Zaefferer which is linked from jquery.com to an offsite domain.

The latter link is the official plugin from JQuery. That can be downloaded here: http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/

or you can use CDN

• http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.8/jquery.validate.js
• http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.8/jquery.validate.min.js

The other link looks like it started in 2010, whereas JQuery Validate is there since 2006