Basic AJAX Tutorial: Smooth Scrolling Text Marquee with a jQuery plugin
This tutorial covers: What is a plugin? Installing a plugin The jQuery Marquee plugin Implementing the jQuery Marquee plugin What is a plugin? A plugin is an addition to the core jQuery functionality....
View ArticleIntroduction to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
JSON, JavaScript Object Notation, is a very useful tool for AJAX developers (and many others I’m sure). XML is fairly difficult for JavaScript to parse out. It also includes quite a bit of...
View ArticleHTML Fadein Fadeout: Basic Javascript/AJAX Tutorial using jQuery’s fadeTo
In this tutorial we will review: Basic document jQuery preparation Binding jQuery actions to an anchor (A) tag Fading In and Fading Out html elements with Javascript/AJAX If you want some more basic...
View ArticleWeb development with the iPhone and iPad in Mind
In the very near future, I will be posting a series of posts on what you should/shouldn’t be doing to develop a website where the iPhone and iPad are a target demographic. jQuery will figure...
View ArticleGoogle Code University: Free Courses, Tutorials and Lectures for Web...
I grew up with webmonkey as the single best destination for web developers and any tutorial you could want, but just saw that Google has a Google Code University featuring Tutorials, Contributed course...
View ArticleGoogle Translate API: Shutting Down, is there an alternative?
Being sick for a few days, I was late in hearing the news. Google is shutting down the Google Translate API. Right now it’s just deprecated, with a full shutdown not occurring until the end of the...
View ArticleXMLHttpRequest: Learn why Asynchronous is Best
Ran across an article on MSDN (I know, right?) about the problems with synchronous XMLHttpRequests, and how it actually causes 8.4% of all hangs in IE9. Synchronous is easier to work with, as it flows...
View ArticlejQuery Mobile 1.1 – Fixed Toolbars, Improved Transitions
jQuery Mobile 1.1, which will be ready for release in mid/late February, will have some nice updates. I’m sure mobile web developers are happy to hear some of these: Fixed Toolbars – no more...
View ArticlejQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released – with bada Support
In case you missed it, as I did, jQuery Mobile released version 1.0.1 a week ago. The biggest changes seem to be the addition of official Samsung bada support, along with some additional test clients....
View ArticleGoogle Indexing Javascript / AJAX?
Saw a post this morning, Google Bot now crawls arbitrary Javascript sites. Seems like not only is Google indexing javascript files, but executing them as if they were an actual user clicking (thus...
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