Software As She’s Developed

I just heard on the new jQuery podcast that jQuery docs will be getting comments. jQuery just got a whole – even more – useful. This is direct from the horse’s mouth, an interview with jQuery head honcho John Resig. I’ve felt for a long time jQuery has been ahead of the pack [...]

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Fred noticed Jon Resig’s State of jQuery slides are up: State of jQuery '09View more documents from jeresig. Highlights for me: Now: Now using sizzle, the quick, generic (not just JQuery), selector engine. Slide 8 show s almost 2* performance improvement on IE6 from JQuery 1.2.6 -> 1.3.2. Performance improvements are apparently dramatic (browser averages): width() / height() ~4* speedup (good – [...]

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This article by Nick Zakas, covering some technical issues in iframe loading, triggered me to surface a JQuery IFrame plugin I made a little while ago, which supports loading IFrames. (I did tweet it at the time, though I’ve since changed the location.) JQuery IFrame plugin The plugin basically tells you, the programmer of the parent [...]

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This has been a while coming, but I made a little “yet another modal dialog lightbox JQuery plugin” thing this week. Demo and Download for Modal Dialog – JQuery Plugin It was driven by TiddlyDocs, but I’ve been wanting one anyway for a while. Mostly because lightbox libraries generally do some hocus-pocus on page load, like applying [...]

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Tonight, I was thinking of making a Twitter app to manage my various accounts (I have ~dormant accounts related to projects like @webwait and @listoftweets). The app would be holding username and password details for each of these accounts, so it made sense to build it as a Single Page Application (SPA). This way, a [...]

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About a year ago, I was excited to discover ColourLovers had an API. There is some great data about colours and palettes on that site, and some great possibilities for mashups - some as general-purpose art projects, and some as tools for designers. However, I noticed there was no JSON-P interface, so there was no way [...]

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TiddlyWeb-JQuery Comments Plugin - Screencast @ Vimeo I've extracted from Scrumptious a nested comments plugin you can integrate into any POJA (plain ol' Javascript app). You can find it here in the repo: TiddlyWeb-JQuery Comments Plugin. As the README explains, usage is a one-liner once you've set it up. Just do $(selector).comments("topic"). The topic is an identifier [...]

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SUMMARY: Get the latest jQuery here: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js For example, cut-and-paste one of the following: curl -O http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js wget http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js With the release of JQuery 1.3, I thought I'd mention the Google JQuery CDN, one of several libraries you can yoink from Google's Ajax Libraries API. Instead of hosting your own JQuery, you just point your web app to Google's JQuery: <script [...]

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