This Week in jQuery, vol. 8

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Another week, another collection of links to some of the most interesting and exciting new jQuery happenings around the web.

If you have ever used a regular expression tool to highlight character matches in real time, then you’ll jump for joy when I tell you about the Interactive jQuery selector tester written by Samuli Kärkkäinen. You enter a selector expression, and in real time you get to see the elements in the DOM structure that have been selected. I can see this being very handy for complex expressions or for optimizing expressions down to the simplest solution.

Also, in case you didn’t notice, the second maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.7 is out.

Articles this Week

Tutorials this Week

Plugins this Week

  • A new jQuery mp3 player hit the streets, jPlayer! It’s also Themeroller ready!
  • Need to re-skin the browser default UI forms? Check out the uniform jQuery plugin. It might just help you realize the dream of making web forms look the same across all browsers.
  • If your cup of tea is dealing with mouse gestures, then you’ll be glad to know that there is now a SUPER Gestures plugin. Its SUPER!
  • SWFUpload + jQuery = SWFUpload jQuery Plugin.

Plugin Spotlight/Updates

Pulled from my own personal archives. I bring you $.event.special.hover which is an alternative to Brain Cherne’s popular hoverIntent plugin. You may or may not have missed this plugin, but regardless, it’s certainly worth a first look, or second.

What’s a week of jQuery news without a lightbox thickbox super window modal dialog thingy kabob doodad solution?

SuperBox and jOverlay, welcome to the crowd! Nice to have you.

jQuery Gossip/Rumor Mill

It’s possible that you might be seeing several team members, if not John Resig himself, talking at the up and coming devdays. And the really juicy part is they might be wearing a DEVO red energy dome.

jQuery Quote of the Week

“You can save a tremendous amount of time and effort by using the browser-independent framework that JQuery has spent untold man-hours testing, debugging, and proving in the field. While there’s nothing wrong with writing JavaScript, why not speed your development time by writing to the library instead? As I’ve always said, don’t reinvent the wheel, unless you plan on learning more about wheels. ” – Jeff Atwood

17 thoughts on “This Week in jQuery, vol. 8

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  2. Kevin on said:

    It appears as though the news section on the front page of the jquery site never updates. It would be great to be able to see if there are any new blog posts from the front page rather than having to go to the blog.

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  4. I do appreciate a lot your effort to give jquery a much-needed “official” widgets collection, but the cross browser compatibility should be among the top places in your priority list.