I’ve been using jQuery more and more at work but have been having to hold off some of the more advanced uses because of accessibility concerns. Working with the Government we are looking more and more at 508 and accessibility and right now AJAX is a bit of a gray area.
Today John Resig (author of [...]
January 30, 2008 – 9:31 am
Often times I find that a jQuery plugin’s download link may not be the latest and greatest. Lately I’ve been going directly to the source
You can browse the jQuery Subversion repository online. The nice thing is you can see exactly when the author last update anything by looking at the [...]
January 25, 2008 – 10:45 am
Saw this on John Resig’s blog today where he is speaking about how important partnering with certain projects and companies has been for jQuery’s growth (there are also some great bits in there about open source software which I need to blog about in another post). What caught my eye is they are working [...]
January 22, 2008 – 10:32 am
I was updating my application I’m working on to use the latest jQuery Validation plugin and was skimming through the documentation. One neat thing I noticed was this:
Using remote validation to help with captchas
Remote validation to check if the user entered the correct captcha, without forcing him to submit the form first
That is [...]
January 18, 2008 – 8:34 am
I’m curious how you handle updates to things like their ColdFusion frameworks, Javascript libraries, etc?? I’m using JQuery on several projects now and each project I think is using a different version of JQuery.
Do you include your framework and library files in each project?
Do you keep these files in a ‘core’ directory [...]
January 15, 2008 – 8:34 am
Looks like jQuery 1.2.2 is out today! And it’s turning 2.
The major changes are:
300% Speed Improvements to $(DOMElement)
.ready() Overhaul: Uses Diego Perini’s non-document.write() technique, now wait for CSS to be ready, can now watch for the document ready event via the traditional .bind()
.bind(”mouseenter”) / .bind(”mouseleave”)
Complex :not()
Accepts Headers
Event API: jQuery.event.special setup teardown handler
You know it’s [...]
January 2, 2008 – 2:06 pm
So I'm working on this huge checklist application and I've built the interface with jQuery. It's basically a big accordion, with each category having the ability to expand and show search topics within. It's a search interface so in addition to the categories and topics we need to have some buttons to [...]
December 17, 2007 – 2:33 pm
No, I'm not talking about the old Macromedia software...
I'm talking about contributing to 'the community'?
I'm on several mailing lists for a variety of open source projects and inevitably someone posts a note complaining about this or that, lack of documentation, examples, etc. The developer(s) usually reply by saying "Volunteer and do [...]
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