Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
jQuery in 15 minutes
Category: Presentation
, jQuery
Simon Willison has posted a short presentation, jQuery in 15 minutes.
If you haven’t looked at jQuery yet, this will definitely give you the highlights, such as:
- What makes jQuery interesting
- The role of CSS selectors
- Unobtrusive land
- It’s all about the plugins
3.7 rating from 37 votes
Very nice!
nice overview
yes, perfect to show to a friend of mine so he know what to expect from jQuery
I don’t get why they make a deal of “plugins” its JavaScript everythign is extendable.. woopie :/
As someone just starting to delve into the wonders of jQuery, this is cool.
Slide 6 says that “some methods return results from the first matched element”, but two of the three examples anyway are single elements! The first uses an id, and the third the :last selector.
Anyway, I’ve learned from slide 11 the really not obvious meaning of the end() method, thanks!
James: the neat thing about jQuery plugins is that they are a supported way of adding new methods to the jQuery object. It means that jQuery itself can stay reasonably small, but if you desperately need to be able to do $(’div.teaser’).explodeInAShowerOfSparks() there’s a documented and explained way of adding your custom functionality.
I used this for a presentation yesterday I did on jQuery to the company I work for. It doesn’t address why you should use jQuery, but it does give a nice overview on how to use it.