jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Isobar’s Rob Larsen suggests that there is often a need to build CSS selectors dynamically when building applications. ”This is typically some existing pattern paired with a loop counter or something pulled from a data attribute,” he writes on his blog. His choice is to create a variable called ”selector” and ”to craft the selector Read the rest…
Friday, March 4th, 2011
jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 increases browser support to include Firefox Mobile, Opera Mobile / Mini. Improvements reported on support for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, and Palm WebOS. Moreover, the Ajax navigation system has been … deeply re-factored to improve performance and handle more edge cases. This includes event handling for click, submit, and hashchange, all Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Here's a live blog from jQuery creator John Resig's talk at FOWA, where he's giving us an update on the new toys from the jQuery team. Data Link jQuery already supports a data API: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: $("div").data("test", 5); $("div").data("test")===5; $("div").removeData(); This is better than attaching data directly to data nodes for various Read the rest...
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
From Tim Aidlin over at Microsoft comes a tutorial on using JQuery to do animation. The tutorial is focused on using a new library they have designed called Glimmer that allows designers and developers to create interactive elements and animations on web pages using JQuery. Using Glimmer you setup your HTML and CSS and then Read the rest...
Friday, August 13th, 2010
I have had the pleasure to start working with the awesome jQuery team on a new mobile development. Today, John announced jQuery Mobile, "a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation." Palm has sponsored the effort with other great folks, and I wrote Read the rest...
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, jQuery
Franz Enzenhofer has created a nice new webkitTransform plugin that helps you manage transforms and state. Franz tells us more: With jQuery.css you can't easily change the webkitTransform CSS because webkitTransform is not your average CSS. If in one step you add .css('-webkit-transform', "rotate(20deg)") and in the next step .css('-webkit-transform', "scale(2.0)") the rotate value gets Read the rest...
Monday, May 17th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Library
James Burke is moving quickly with his RequireJS library. He recently posted about the requirements that John Resig has for a script loader for jQuery: script loading must be async script loading should do as much in parallel as possible. This means in particular, that it should be possible to avoid dynamic nested dependency loading. Read the rest...
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Category: jQuery
Corey Hart has a fun post on jQuery micro optimization tips by walking through the jQuery codebase to see what is running. Right away he notes that these are true micro optimizations, and to "use with caution and balance elegance with performance correctly." Chances are you are a lucky chap if these are the biggest Read the rest...
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Category: Canvas, JavaScript
, jQuery
How do you visualize data in interesting ways but allow the data to be accessible for all? The jQuery Visualize work is the latest library that groks HTML and replaces the table with pretty graphs: The Visualize plugin parses key content elements in a well-structured HTML table, and leverages that native HTML5 canvas drawing ability Read the rest...
Monday, March 29th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Ben Alman has a mother of a post on his special events work for jQuery. I have a special penchant for custom events and the like, even though I have abused them just as I did in the old days of AOP! :) What are special events? The jQuery special events API is a fairly Read the rest...
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Category: jQuery
jQuery UI 1.8 has been released and it contains new plugins, a new effect, bug fixes, and is forkable on GitHub What's new? Position utility Position any element relative to any other, or even relative to the window or the mouse. In true “Write Less. Do More” fashion, it’s a simple as selecting the element Read the rest...
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Spritely is a new jQuery plugin that adds sprite() and pan() to your $(). The fun front page of birds is explained with simple goodness of: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: // animate through 3 frames $('#bird').sprite({fps: 12, no_of_frames: 3}); // clicking on the screen flies a sprite to you $('#bird').sprite({fps: 12, no_of_frames: 3}).activeOnClick().active(); $('body').flyToTap(); Read the rest...
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Update: Here is a full set of release notes on the platform preview (called that as it is more of a shell than a browser. Rey Bango (Ajaxian and now Microsoft employee) will do a post that rounds up the news from MIX today where the IE9 team shared a first preview release of IE9 Read the rest...
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Category: jQuery, Library
, YUI
I just came across this wonderful Gist on gitHub: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var $; YUI().use('*', function(Y){ $ = Y.get; for(var p in Y) { $[p] = Y[p]; } }); // test $('body').append("boo!"); In case you want to use YUI3 but really really like jQuery syntax :) Read the rest...
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
jQuery 1.4.2 has been released today and it comes with some performance bumps (aggressive ones according to Taskspeed). Benchmarks are challenging, and John even calls that out: For example, we saw significant overall performance speed-ups in Taskspeed simply by optimizing the $("body") selector because it’s called hundreds of times within the tests. Additionally we saw Read the rest...
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Jacek Galanciak has created a nice visual transition library, Quicksand, that filters and shows a set of data in an interesting way. The jQuery plugin has you quickly calling quicksand like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: $('#source').quicksand( $('#destination li') ); and you have the data to transition between: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <ul id="source"> Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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