JQuery
CDNs Gaining Broader Use with JavaScript Libraries
YUI and Google
Most everyone knows that Google has really stepped up to the plate by helping many JavaScript library projects host their builds on the Google AJAX Libraries API. Apart from providing a ....... read more
2 days ago
Liquid Canvas: Draw inside canvas with a DSL
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2 days ago
jsTree Nears 1.0; Solicits Feedback
Several months ago, we covered jsTree, a promising new tree component built on top of jQuery. Its since gained its own website and is nearing a 1.0 release. There have been a few changes since we la ....... read more
9 days ago
Time Picker UI
John Resig linked to an interesting new time picker UI that Maxime Haineault implemented as a jQuery plugin:
He made a two click time picker. The first click is within the time field. This activ ....... read more
10 days ago
CSS3 ASCII Layouts, Element Transversals, and Gotchas
John Resig has been a busy guy posting today not once but thrice! They all interesting too.
I really enjoyed the CSS3 Template Layout post that reminds us of the CSS 3 advanced layout that allows you ....... read more
11 days ago
JX: Layout manager for jQuery
Santosh Rajan has created JX, which he calls a "Object Oriented Extension to jQuery". With that description, I was expecting something like Dean's Base library, but instead I found a layout manager fo ....... read more
15 days ago
A Better Scrollable Component, Using jQuery
Nater Kane wrote in to share his experience creating one of those scrollable components:
I was having a bit of difficulty finding a jQuery plugin that not only provided scrolling behavior to a l ....... read more
18 days ago
Using JavaScript to make things work
An interesting top 12 list has been published, on using Javascript to fix 12 common browser headaches:
Setting Equal Heights (jQuery example: $("#col1, #col2").equalizeCols())
IE6 PNG Alpha Transpe ....... read more
Wed,
15 Oct 2008
Ruby on jQuery and Closures
Sam Ruby has that way about him that sees things very clearly. He just took a peak at jQuery for the first time and was able to really put into words what I think jQuery enthusiasts like about the lib ....... read more
Mon,
13 Oct 2008
An Interesting Twist on a Pastebin
Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin Pastie.org are extremely popular because theyre easy to use and very effective in letting people comp ....... read more
Thu,
09 Oct 2008
Antisocial: 3D in Canvas with Sound
Gasman has created Antisocial, a very enjoyable demo of Canvas doing fake 3d and 2d along with that ZX Spectrum sound that you loved as a kid.
Check out the tool to see where the magic happens, and m ....... read more
Wed,
08 Oct 2008
I like big?? targets
BigTarget.js is a new little jQuery plugin that makes bigger targets for users:
Wrapping a single anchor around the whole content (title, thumbnail, summary) is a bad idea as it?s not standards com ....... read more
Tue,
30 Sep 2008
jQuery finds its way into Microsoft and Nokia stacks
Just as jQuery kicks off its first jQuery conference adjunct with The Ajax Experience in Boston tomorrow, it gets an energy boost from some big double-barrel news:
Microsoft and jQuery
Microsoft is ....... read more
Sun,
28 Sep 2008
blink at the marquee one more time
Remy Sharp gives us a blast form the past for the some Friday fun.
First, he shows his Marquee plugin that gives you the marquee effect. Why would you do this when the marquee tag itself is widely ado ....... read more
Fri,
12 Sep 2008
jTPS: Animated Sortable Datagrid jQuery plugin
The data grid above is a jQuery plugin jTPS that creates a table you can sort and page through, using nice animations, all via a simple call out:
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Fri,
05 Sep 2008
QUnit: A simple look at the jQuery unit test framework
Chad Myers has a simple look at GUnit, the jQuery based unit test framework. His article explains how to get going, and walks through a test like this:
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module("S ....... read more
Wed,
03 Sep 2008
addSizes.js: automatic link file-size generation
Nathalie Downe has taken Simon Willison's json-head App Engine mini-service and used it to create addSizes.js, a little script that looks for large files linked from a page, and automatically adds the ....... read more
Tue,
02 Sep 2008
CSS Sprites2: Return of the JS
In March 2004, Dave Shea wrote about CSS Sprites, and now he is back with CSS Sprites 2. He walks us through using JavaScript to make this all work nicely, and picks jQuery to get 'er done:
After p ....... read more
Mon,
01 Sep 2008
jQuery.com redesigned with a Rock Star
When I was doing an interview with John Resig for the Open Web Podcast, he mentioned that the redesign of jQuery.com had a lot of people talking, and it seems like people have strong feelings about t ....... read more
Fri,
29 Aug 2008
Degrading script tags for fun and profit
John Resig posted on degrading script tags and adding functionality to read more
Fri,
29 Aug 2008