jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
One of the things I always want to do with online maps is rotate them – I am used to that with real, physical maps. As physical maps become a lot more clever these days (for example have you seen the zoomable map?) it is time we can do this with the online ones, too. Read the rest…
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Library
The incredibly popular jQuery library has released jQuery 1.4 on a new website that will celebrate 14 days of jQuery. There are a lot of new features, and as usual performance gains are showcased. Easy Setter Functions: For a while now, you’ve been able to pass a function into .attr() and the return value of Read the rest...
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, JSON
, XmlHttpRequest
, Yahoo!
OK, this is nothing shockingly new, but I found it pretty useful. Using jQuery, Ajax has become more or less a one-liner: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: $(document).ready(function(){ $('.ajaxtrigger').click(function(){ $('#target').load($(this).attr('href')); return false; }); }); This loads the document any link with a class of "ajaxtrigger" points to and updates the content Read the rest...
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Category: jQuery
A couple of feature-packed jQuery podcasts have appeared in the past month or so: YayQuery (iTunes), a laid-back video podcast from folks in the jQuery community; and the official jQuery podcast (iTunes), hosted on the official jQuery blog and aiming to be a mix of news and interviews, hosted by Elijah Manor and Ralph Whitbeck. Read the rest...
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Category: jQuery
Some very exciting news coming from the jQuery project yesterday. The jQuery JavaScript library won .net Magazine's "Open source application of the Year for 2009". This was a pretty amazing accomplishment when you consider that both WordPress & Firefox 3.5 were the runner-ups. Simon Willison was on hand to accept the award for the project. Read the rest...
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Category: jQuery, Performance
When your browser freezes on you on some random web page, there's a pretty good chance its caused by the very JavaScript designed to improve your experience. Good 'ole JavaScript performance. Sebastian Ruiz of Atlassian recently worked on a UI rewrite of two of their products (FishEye and Crucible) and found some interesting solutions to Read the rest...
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Atlassian has created a new JIRA Interactive Tour that walks you through the application, live. We have seen a couple of these before, and this one is really cool. It is one thing watching a screencast of an application that you want to learn, but having an assistant that helps you inside the live app Read the rest...
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Hamish Friedlander of SilverStripe has developed jQuery Concrete as a way to enable developers to easily add functions to groups of DOM elements based on the structure and contents of those DOM elements. Hamish told us: I'd like to announce the 0.9 (API stable) release of the Concrete and Selector libraries for jQuery. Concrete provides Read the rest...
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Category: jQuery
We have featured the creative work of Scott Robbin many times before. This time he comes at us with a cool new jQuery Approach plugin. It works very similar in nature to animate, except it's based on distance instead of time. As the user's cursor approaches an element, more of an animated style's value is Read the rest...
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, jQuery
The classic animated gif, or the "loading..." text, could be now easily replaced thanks to this new jQuery plug-in. Specially suited for a page loads of images, the final result showed in this demo looks really nice and flashy. Features: Preload a whole web page. Preload a part of the page. Gets all images, <img> Read the rest...
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
There are many options for JavaScript Unit Testing but a "de facto" standard for the jQuery library, related plug-ins, and jQuery UI is QUnit. Nothing new so far? Check this out: According to tweets from John Resig the state of QUnit is: QUnit is now completely standalone (it no longer depends upon jQuery) QUnit now Read the rest...
Friday, August 7th, 2009
We posted on the audio + processing Twitter visualization this week, and today we have a new one. Luis Abreu and Quodis Labs have created a jQuery DOM based visualization, Tori's Eye. It's a twitter visualization animated with jQuery, fetches search rss results( has a default keyword, user can change ), and for each result Read the rest...
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Category: jQuery
We showed the cool Chroma Hash last week, and then we saw another cool jQuery plugin for passwords. The iPhone-like passwords plugin takes an input and makes it feel like the iPhone in that you see what you type for a short period and it then gets hidden as a "?". There are some real Read the rest...
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Matt Thompson has created a fun little jQuery plugin called Chroma-Hash that "dynamically visualizes secure text-field values using ambient color bars": Password entry can be frustrating, especially with long or difficult passwords. On a webpage, secure fields obscure your input with •'s, so others can't read it. Unfortunately, neither can you—you can't tell if you Read the rest...
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Ryan Scherf has created a simple jQuery plugin that "uses Mobile Safari's built in touch events to allow jQuery binding of swipe events to any DOM element. You can override the swipeLeft and swipeRight defaults functions to create your own custom process when the gesture is detected." It can be used as simple as: PLAIN Read the rest...
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Scott Jehl has released jQuery Visualize, the plugin that groks HTML tables and generates lovely charts from it, all from a simple $('table').visualize(); (lot's of options for you to twiddle too if you want). First, you create a bog standard table like: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <table> <caption>2009 Individual Sales by 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...
How to change html form tags to ajax
How to change html form tags to...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
Hello Everyone,
Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
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