Initially what attracted me to jQuery was it’s compactness. It doesn’t have separately defined classes for each component, like Prototype. There’s one point of entry and most everything revolves around DOM elements. There’s no distinction between selecting a single or multiple DOM element(s) and, because jQuery only uses a selector syntax, you don’t get confused whether the parameter passed is an ID, class, etc.

A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a delay between jQuery functions. This small but very useful plugin that has saved me a lot of time. I haven't done a lot of testing, but because the plugin is so small and simple (only 212 bytes!) I don't think I could have missed much!

I ended the first part of this two part series with a working two level drop down and fly out menu using CSS and HTML. However, we did find that all was not so well when it came to, particularly, Internet Explorer 6. The aim of this part of the series then is to close the gaps and ensure that our menus will work in Firefox, Opera 9.52 and 9.6, Safari 3, Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and for good measure, we will ensure that it works with Google Chrome. So let's get started.

Adobe released version 1.5 of Adobe AIR today, incorporating Flash Player 10 (Pixel Bender, hardware accelerated graphics, improved video streaming, 3D effects) and the super fast JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish.

Simple tips on making your HTML or Ajax application more accessible.

It all started when I was looking at the WebKit blog and saw an article on the new CSS3 animations and the one that caught my eye was ‘rotate’. I started thinking what the hell can you rotate on a webpage (it’s animated GIF’s times ten!). Then it hit me — a clocks hands rotate! Bingo!

Ejacs is a port of Narcissus. Narcissus is a JavaScript interpreter written in JavaScript, by Brendan Eich, who by pure unexpected coincidence is also the inventor of JavaScript. Narcissus is fairly small, so I thought it would be fun to port it to Emacs Lisp.

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what now? How TF can I send you a message? Read in this article/

Pivot is a platform for building rich internet applications that run in the Java Plugin. While Pivot applications are often built using a combination of XML and Java, it is sometimes more convenient to build simple applications or applications whose code is likely to change often, such as prototypes, using a scripting language such as JavaScript. Pivot now allows developers to write their application logic using their scripting language of choice, using the features provided by the javax.script package available in Java 6 and above.

I've been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well -- I've been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have saved me time.

This article covers PHP implementation of a couple of Yahoo's website performance recommendations for faster web page loading.

You may remember the old days before CSS when we were forced to mix stylistic markup with the document structure markup in our HTML pages. Developers were so sad to do such a thing.

Usesful 17 jQuery Plugins

There were two events recently that made me quite concerned. First, I was looking through some of the results from the Dromaeo test suite and I noticed a bunch of zero millisecond times being returned from tests. This was quite odd since the tests should've taken, at least, a couple milliseconds to run and getting consistent times of "0" is rather infeasible, especially for non-trivial code.

There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They're essential parts of any web developer's toolbox. If you haven't seen them yet, you no doubt will in your future web development endeavors.

Guid0 is a GUID library for Javascript. Okay, it doesn't yet do official, bona fide, 128-bit, GUIDs yet, mainly for API design reasons. But this is a library you might find useful if you want to generate a unique ID in your Ajax app.

Are you guilty of subconsciously regarding ’scripting’ languages as inferior? Do you think real programming means using C, C++, C#, or Java? Does your conscience accuse you of laziness when you feel tempted to use a truly high-level language for your app?

A simple css framework to layout web-based interfaces, based on the printed layout techniques of 4 columns but with capabilities to unlimited column combinations. and capacity to make elastic, fixed and liquid layout easily.

The new version is out and available for download at Google Code. The big news is that I managed to create a few example pages (@jstree.com). I am working on a fully featured example that will combine all the small example pages that are available now - it should be out in a few days.

Video showing how to integrate JavaScript toolkits and work with them in NetBeans IDE.

Whether you’re an airline, task manager, or just have a birthdate field on your registration form, a popup date picker makes selecting dates considerably easier for users, and overall enhances the functionality and feel of the site. jQuery UI provides a datepicker widget that can easily be incorporated into your site.

While they may not be that pretty, forms are one of the most important parts of a web site. I have already written an article on CSS Forms, that was over a year ago, and I have developed much better techniques.

In my previous blog postings, I talked about making the Spinner component, and then added styles via an external css file. Please review those first, if you haven't looked at them yet. This time, we'll move the JavaScript out to a separate file, and make sure that we can execute multiple spinners in a page, like this:

Recently Maxime Haineault announced a simple jQuery plugin for inputting a new time of day called jQuery.timepickr.js. Its principles are very similar to jQuery itself: Get users to input the time as simply as possible with as little input as possible.

If you have the algorithms with conditional statements in the client code it will be messy. The Strategy pattern moves an algorithm from the client code to a separate class.