Simple Challenge: Find all the LI elements underneath two different elements (using their #ID as reference) and bind a click handler which changes the color of the LI’s text. Here is how you would do that in all of the popular event/selector libraries. Behaviour + Prototype Behaviour.register({ ‘#item li’: function(element) { Event.observe(element, ‘click’, function(event) { … Continue reading →

Recently Plazes (a popular geolocation web application) put up a redesign of their service. If you take a peek at how it’s doing it’s cool effects, underneath the hood, you’ll see that it’s making good use of jQuery. The best place to see it in action is on the Plazes People page. The purpose of … Continue reading →

Joe Hewitt is working on updating his excellent Firebug Firefox extension. If you’re not familiar with it, you should be. It provides detailed per-page error tracking, XMLHTTPRequest tracking, DOM Navigation – everything that a Javascript developer needs. The new version of Firebug is adding one more feature: Javascript debugging. This will allow you to set … Continue reading →

Cody Lindley just released a brand new version of Lightbox/Greybox called Thickbox. This release offers some great, added, functionality over the other libraries. Specifically, this release is completely unobtrusive – it uses the natural href, src, and title attributes to seed the box, when it pops up. Even if you don’t have Javascript enabled, it … Continue reading →

Jeffery Chiang recently submitted an excellent visual representation of the jQuery library, to the jQuery mailing list. It shows all the different plugins and what methods/features they support (borrowed from the jQuery Documentation). Similar diagrams have been done for the Prototype library – but none of them have the cool Devo hat of jQuery to … Continue reading →

Audun Wilhelmsen (skyfex), a jQuery user who lives in Norway, recently attended The Gathering, one of the largest computer events in the world. While there, he competed in an Opera-sponsored widget development contest. The new Opera 9 Beta has a whole widget framework, that’s sure to challenge Yahoo! Widgets and OSX Dashboard. Once the final … Continue reading →