Following in the footsteps of the excellent Yahoo! UI Tetris by Dustin Diaz comes jQuery Tetris. This Javascript implementation of Tetris, written by Franck Marcia, comes in at only about 5.8kb, compared to Dustin’s 30kb for YUI Tetris. This is a great example of the short code that’s possible using jQuery, while still making something … Continue reading →

I’ve slowly been moving jQuery over to SVN during the past month, with the move being nearly complete now. So, if you wish to keep track of jQuery through Subversion (and make sure you always have the latest code), you can do so via: The jQuery SVN Web Interface (This will probably soon change to … Continue reading →

Mark Constable has created an excellent, and well-documented, resource for some interesting advanced jQuery Examples. The examples range from the simple (such as fading text in and out) to the complex (such as live searching or input field focusing). All of the examples are fully documented, which makes this a great place to learn some … Continue reading →

jQuery is now available, exclusively, under the MIT License. This license is much more open than the previous Creative Commons license used (and much better suited to software development). In a nutshell, for those not familiar with the MIT License, it’s about as free as you can get without actually putting something in the public … Continue reading →

An amazing new jQuery resource has just arrived: 15 Days of jQuery. It’s a new site run by Jack Born, devoted to providing simple tutorials for getting you started using jQuery. Jack created this site after using jQuery in his projects: I consider [jQuery] the Swiss Army knife of Javascript – it’s small, versatile, and … Continue reading →

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 →