jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Tero Piirainen has created a new package of jQuery Tools. This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today’s website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new Read the rest…
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Category: Articles, jQuery
, MooTools
Normally when you see a title like jQuery vs. MooTools you get ready for the flame bait. You would expect it even more so if you found out that someone from one of the frameworks wrote the post! Well, Aaron Newton did just that, and I think he did a very good job at trying Read the rest…
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Category: jQuery
Media Players seem to be a hot topic right now. After the upgrades to Scott Schiller’s SoundManager, Paul Bakaus of the jQuery UI team now puts a firm stake into the ground with the uberplayer. The uberplayer takes a leaf out of the book of the UI of standalone media players. Instead of cluttering the Read the rest…
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Alexis Deveria of “When Can I Use…” fame recently told us about his latest project: A jQuery plug-in to provide support for the CSS Template Layout Module. For those of you unfamiliar with this specification, it provides a relatively easy way to make a table-like layout using CSS. Until recently it was known as the Read the rest…
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Showcase
, SVG
Brad Neuberg pointed me to a Blackberry Storm site that uses Raphael, jQuery, and SoundManager to offer an SVG / VML (for IE) experience. PLAIN TEXT HTML: <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.0/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> <script src="/js/soundmanager2-nodebug-jsmin.js"></script> <script src="/js/raphael-min.js"></script> <script src="/js/trig-min.js"></script>
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Alexander Graef wrote in to tell us about the excellent Horizontal Accordion jQuery plug-in, which takes an unordered list: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <ul class="test"> <li><div class="handle"><img src='images/title1.png'/></div><img src='images/image_test.gif' align='left'/> <h3>Content 1</h3> <p>...</p> </li> <li><div class="handle"><img src='images/title2.png'/></div><img src='images/image_test.gif' align='left'/> <h3>Content 2</h3> <p>...</p> </li> Read the rest...
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Library
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: $(document).ready(function() { $('.white').addGlow({ textColor: 'white', haloColor: '#aaa', radius: 100 }); $('.blue').addGlow({ textColor: '#00f', haloColor: '#00f', radius: 100 }); $('.green').addGlow({ textColor: '#0f0', haloColor: '#0f0', radius: 100 }); $('.red').addGlow({ textColor: '#f00', haloColor: '#f00', radius: 100 }); $('*').bind('glow:started', console.info); Read the rest...
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Category: Firefox, jQuery
, Plugins
Devon Govett is a fan of the new CSS3 property text-overflow: There are a few CSS features that Microsoft pioneered and has had available to developers in Internet Explorer for a long time now. One of those features is the text-overflow property, which is now in CSS3 and has implementations in Safari, and Opera. Firefox Read the rest...
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Library
, UI
Riccardo Degni has created GX, his latest animation framework. He actually created moo.rd in the past, and this time he is playing on top of jQuery: I’ve developed GX keeping in mind mainly two Design Patterns: the “Write Less, Do More” Pattern picked from the jQuery Library. With GX you’ll always write as less code Read the rest...
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Paul Chiu, author of Passbook, has written up his thoughts on reuse for widgets in large Ajax applications. The solution? For Passbook I decided to solve this problem once and for all. The solution I believe is in objectifying page elements as a block so that a panel with an edit and delete button can Read the rest...
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Category: jQuery
Howard Rauscher has wrapped up a little script to test the users browser for a particular font support. fontAvailable is a jQuery plugin, but can easily be tweaked to be independent: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: /* fontAvailable jQuery Plugin, v1.0 * * Copyright (c) 2009, Howard Rauscher * Licensed under the MIT License */ Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Allan Jardine has updated his popular DataTables rich data grid control. Allan told us what his aims were for this 1.4.1 release: Being fairly happy with the options that DataTables presents to the end user, I've focused this release on providing tools for the developer. A plug-in API, non-destructive DOM manipulation (the biggest weak point Read the rest...
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Category: jQuery
The jQuery UI team has announced today, the release of v1.7 of their effects and UI controls framework. The development took awhile going through some bumps in the road and even a major overhaul of how the library was structured. In addition, the team became much more organized adding new team members which greatly enhanced Read the rest...
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Category: jQuery, Performance
John Resig has posted on JavaScript Function Call Profiling and new methods he has added to FireUnit: fireunit.getProfile(); Run this method after you've run console.profile(); and console.profileEnd(); to get a full dump of the profiling information. For example, given the following profile run: You'll get the following JavaScript object returned from fireunit.getProfile(): PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: Read the rest...
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Category: jQuery
jQuery 1.3.2 has been released and although it is mainly a bug fix maintenance release, it does a little more, including: Elements Returned in Document Order .live() Can Now Prevent Bubbling :visible/:hidden Overhauled .height()/.width() Overhauled Selector Speed-up in IE .appendTo()/etc. Now Return Inserted Elements It is also fun to look at the grab back of Read the rest...
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Category: jQuery, The Ajax Experience
, Video
Today's post of Ajax Experience videos from our Fall 2008 show features jQuery. Enjoy! Intro to jQuery with John Resig Advanced jQuery with John Resig jQuery on Rails (The Real Ones) with Jonathan Sharp
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...
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...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
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