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 →

This is the total amount of fixes and new features that have come out in the past week, or so. I’ll be adding more info concerning them to the docs very soon. New Demo: Accordian Open/Close – Toggle open/close a number of entries at once! New Features: empty() – you can remove all child nodes … Continue reading →

Mark Panay has written a follow up to JQuery for Web Designers. This time he emphasizes keeping content brief and using jQuery to reveal the full body of blog posts and articles. This is very similar to a technique that I have been using in my latest project, Ouioo. Also, Mark has launched a new … Continue reading →

The new AJAX plugin for jQuery is ready – and if you’re running off of the latest code, it’s already rolled in. Along with that, there are a few new effects to be enjoyed: fadeIn, fadeOut, and center. I’ve also squished a number of bugs, which have gone into this release too: A problem with … Continue reading →

It hasn’t been mentioned here yet but the jQuery IRC channel is pretty happenin’ – there’s at least a couple of us in there at all times. We’ve been busy hunting down bugs and I’ve been busy fixing them, here’s a quick run down of what’s been fixed in the past couple days: hide()/show() operations … Continue reading →

Today’s DHTML trick is a smooth example of Image Cross Fading. The Javascript code for the whole page is rather short to begin with, but there was some rom for improvement. If you were to look at the original source file, just about everything except for the variable declarations and the so_xfade method can be … Continue reading →

Another popular DOM/CSS/Javascript project popped up today: Greybox. It’s a lot like the popular lightbox, but is used to display web sites on top of your current page. I saw this as another great opportunity to demonstrate how easy it is to make great code with jQuery. I modified greybox in two phases. First step … Continue reading →

Mark Panay made a good post today explaining the benefits of using jQuery, for web designers. Specifically, how a designer can benefit from using jQuery to circumvent CSS features that aren’t implemented in browsers, yet. Keep your extraneous markup tucked away as unobtrusive Javascript is always a smart move.

Another CSS/Javascript article is making the rounds today called: Width-Based Layout. The premise is that the page auto-resizes the width based upon how wide your browser is. Included with the post is a 38 line piece of Javascript (and I’m being generous) to get the job done. I’m going to save you the break-down of … Continue reading →

Cody Lindley contacted me today to let me know about his views on jQuery – and a new jQuery demo page. If you’re looking for more examples of what jQuery code looks like, and some of the neat effects that it can do, you should definitely check it out. I’ve added a link to his … Continue reading →