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 →

I’ve been digging through my referrer logs and Technorati to see who’s talking about jQuery. Today I ran across someone who wrote a quick tutorial on how to use jQuery. The tutorial, itself, is rather new (e.g. nothing immediately borrowed from the docs) – so if you’re looking for some more sample code, in addition … Continue reading →

I ran across a post on the DOM Scripting blog, the other day, and saw a great opportunity to demo the brevity of jQuery, observe: Old DOM Way: function appendInputTypeClasses() { if ( !document.getElementsByTagName ) return; var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName(‘input’); var inputLen = inputs.length; for ( i=0; i < inputLen; i++ ) { if ( … Continue reading →

Per the request of Mark (and many others) there is now an official jQuery mailing list. I did some simple testing to make sure that it worked properly, and it seems to be fairing well, so far. Let me know if you spot any bugs signing up or posting messages. Feel free to keep questions … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished writing up some more documentation, to help everyone who’s learning how to use jQuery. I’d like to thank Bruno for helping me sort out all the Prototype/jQuery weirdness and Derek for looking at the selector differences. jQuery Base Module. I wrote up how exactly the $() function works and broke up the … Continue reading →

Michael Geary contacted me today to let me know that he’s finished the first third-party jQuery plugin. His particular plugin loads in a remote JSON file, which can then be manipulated further. The chaining of this particular request doesn’t serve many benefits, but this is still something that I’m exploring further (maybe jQuery can support … Continue reading →

I’d like to take this opportunity to announce the jQuery blog. With jQuery having been announced just over a week ago, the response has been enormous. Making it to both del.icio.us popular and the front page of digg just shows how badly Javascript programmers want a better library for writing code with. I’m going to … Continue reading →