thecrumb.com » jQuery http://www.thecrumb.com ColdFusion, Ant, jQuery and other geeky stuff with the occasional motorcycle post. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:13:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ jQuery Cheatsheet(s) http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/10/jquery-cheatsheets/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/10/jquery-cheatsheets/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:01:38 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/?p=461 I noticed DZone has a really nice jQuery selector cheatsheet.  Unlike some others on the web - this one is fairly updated and was created by the same people who wrote jQuery In Action ( a great jQuery book BTW).  You have to jump through some DZone hoops to get it but it’s very nicely done and worth the trouble if you do a lot of jQuery and can’t remember everything! :)

I also turned up a few more:

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/10/jquery-cheatsheets/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ jQuery News: UI 1.5 and jQuerify Bookmarklet http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/09/jquery-news-ui-15-and-jquerify-bookmarklet/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/09/jquery-news-ui-15-and-jquerify-bookmarklet/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:30:23 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/?p=457 jQuery UI 1.5 is out!  I really need to try some of these but with most of my projects having strict 508 issues - there hasn’t been any opportunities to experiment.  I like how much thought they are putting into things and it looks like more good stuff is planned for the future:

We’re already planning the next release and have a huge roadmap that contains plugins like grid, tooltips, menus, colorpickers, autocompletes and much more.

One of my favorite jQuery tools has also been updated.  Karl Swedberg has updated his ‘jQuery bookmarklet‘.  If you have ever found yourself working on a site without jQuery - you can ‘jQuerify’ it using Karl’s bookmarklet.

It’s a nice little tool that allows you to play around with jQuery on a page that doesn’t already have jQuery loaded and see the results immediately.

A great tool to use with Firebug!

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/09/jquery-news-ui-15-and-jquerify-bookmarklet/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Slow Blogging - Fast jQuery (1.2.6) http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/05/slow-blogging-fast-jquery-126/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/05/slow-blogging-fast-jquery-126/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:33:20 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/?p=453 Blogging around here as been slow lately…

Today however I did manage to update an application I’m working on with the latest jQuery 1.2.6 and WOW what an improvement.  I’m using the Autocomplete and Validate plugins as well as a bunch of show/hide stuff and it’s noticeable faster.  It’s a REALLY long form and previously performance was a bit sluggish. Some of that may be due to my code not being as optimized as it could be but with the recent jQuery update things are much snappier overall.

I have no way to actually measure the difference but my ’seat-o-the-pants’ meter says it’s faster.

This month I’m also doing a jQuery presentation for our local AppDev group which I’m looking forward to and which I need to get started on!!

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/06/05/slow-blogging-fast-jquery-126/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Google To Host Popular JavaScript Libraries http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/05/28/google-to-host-popular-javascript-libraries/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/05/28/google-to-host-popular-javascript-libraries/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 15:47:16 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/?p=452 This seems like a great idea if enough people use it…

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.

Google currently supports the following libraries:

  • jQuery
  • prototype
  • script.aculo.us
  • MooTools
  • dojo

A bit more information can be found in this OStatic article.

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/05/28/google-to-host-popular-javascript-libraries/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ John Resig on Accessibility, ARIA and Fire Vox http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/04/30/john-resig-on-accessibility-aria-and-fire-vox/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/04/30/john-resig-on-accessibility-aria-and-fire-vox/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:00:49 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/?p=438 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 jQuery) has a great blog post about Ajax Accessibility in which he discusses Google’s use of ARIA in Google Reader and also mentions  Fire Vox:

Fire Vox is an open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox.

In addition to the basic features that are expected of screen readers, such as being able to identify headings, links, images, etc. and providing navigational assistance, Fire Vox provides support for MathML and CSS speech module properties. It also works on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

I’ll certainly be setting this up today to give it a whirl! If you are interesting in accessibility, 508, and AJAX I’d check out John’s post!

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/04/30/john-resig-on-accessibility-aria-and-fire-vox/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Getting The Latest jQuery and Plugins http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/30/getting-the-latest-jquery-and-plugins/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/30/getting-the-latest-jquery-and-plugins/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:31:38 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/30/getting-the-latest-jquery-and-plugins/ 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 revision and age.

jQuery repo

Click the file you want. A new Trac page will open showing you the source with line numbers, etc. Simply scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click “Plain Text”. This will open a plain text view of the source which you can then save locally.

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/30/getting-the-latest-jquery-and-plugins/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Adobe Feeling the jQuery Goodness http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/25/adobe-feeling-the-jquery-goodness/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/25/adobe-feeling-the-jquery-goodness/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:45:16 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/25/adobe-feeling-the-jquery-goodness/ 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 with Adobe:

Adobe - This is one of our upcoming partners. We’ve been working with them to try and make sure that some of their upcoming releases go smoothly. This is a case where a corporation will be providing copies of jQuery for developers to use (a different use case for us, as this is typically coming from open source projects). We’ll be seeing a lot more from this partnership in the upcoming months, which will be exciting. They’ve been great about keeping communication open - conference calls, emails, and patches - a great partner.

Interesting to see Adobe going this way - they already have Spry, and ColdFusion included parts of ExtJS…

Go jQuery!

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/25/adobe-feeling-the-jquery-goodness/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ jQuery Validation Plugin Updated/Improved! http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/22/jquery-validation-plugin-updatedimproved/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/22/jquery-validation-plugin-updatedimproved/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:32:09 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/22/jquery-validation-plugin-updatedimproved/ 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 a great idea! I know with some of these captchas I have a difficult time deciphering the text often confusing “Os” and zeros, etc. It would be great to get feedback before submitting the form on your successful interpretation of the image :)

Too bad my application doesn’t have a captcha :(

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/22/jquery-validation-plugin-updatedimproved/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Framework / Javascript Library Updates? http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/18/framework-javascript-library-updates/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/18/framework-javascript-library-updates/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:34:06 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/18/framework-javascript-library-updates/ 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 somewhere and reference them from each project?

Just curious how others handle this as I can see it getting worse and worse as I move forward and start using more and more of these (Mach-II, Reactor, JQuery, ExtJS, etc, etc).

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]]> http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/18/framework-javascript-library-updates/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ jQuery 1.2.2 Released - Happy Birthday jQuery! http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/15/jquery-122-released-happy-birthday-jquery/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/15/jquery-122-released-happy-birthday-jquery/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:34:19 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/01/15/jquery-122-released-happy-birthday-jquery/ 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 a bit sad I’m wishing Happy Birthday to a javascript library… Maybe I need to get out more? :)

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