I think we all have heard of or used Suckerfish CSS Menu’s before, written by Pattrick Griffiths and Dan Webb for A List Apart. If not, it’s a cool way to make drop down menu’s using standards based semantic HTML and CSS. Unfortunately, with IE still dominating the browser marketplace we still […]
Comment · Posted: August 3rd, 2006
Will Jessup has just release a great demo of what’s possible with jQuery (and Javascript in general): A 3d model of the universe. Try moving your mouse vertically around the screen to see the universe at different angles, horizontally to make it rotate faster. All the images are courtesy of NASA.
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/programming/Solar_system_made_from_JavaScript’;
Will used a […]
Comment · Posted: August 1st, 2006
Aptana latest release of their Web 2.0 IDE software now includes the ability to import jQuery’s JavaScript library into a web project.
Comment · Posted: July 30th, 2006
If there’s anything that’s apparent from watching the jQuery mailing list and jQuery-related blog posts on Technorati, it’s that there’s a huge international audience for the library.
As I’ve been working on the new version of the web site (to be released together with the upcoming version 1.0 of jQuery) I’ve had a number of offers […]
Comment · Posted: July 29th, 2006
jQuery provides an extremely versatile DOM query mechanism. If you’re wondering what’s happening under the covers, and if there are less- and more-performant ways to formulate your query . . . the answer is YES. In many cases you can help jQuery by specifying a tag name, i.e.:
$(“div.class”).show()
is faster than:
$(“.class”).show()
. . . with the difference […]
Comment · Posted: July 27th, 2006
Just today Technorati pushed a new redesign live. Amongst other changes, it now uses jQuery as its primary Javascript code base. This is huge news as another big web site chooses jQuery as their Javascript library of choice.
If I had to guess, as to why they chose it, I’d say that they appreciated the bandwidth […]
Comment · Posted: July 24th, 2006
There is a lot of good plugin development going on for jQuery. Here are two which have come up on the list lately:
HighlightFade by Blair Mitchelmore is a very thorough jQuery implementation of the “yellow fade” technique. Options include the type of fade (linear, sinusoidal, exponential), the duration, and a function to call on completion. […]
Comment · Posted: July 24th, 2006
Steven Wittens of Drupal fame has released a nifty jQuery plugin of his own called Farbtastic. So what does it do you ask?
Farbtastic uses layered transparent PNGs to render a saturation/luminance gradient inside of a hue circle. No Flash, no pixel sized divs.
With Farbtastic, a simple form input box turns into a auto-updated hex code […]
Comment · Posted: July 18th, 2006
