Jon Hobbs-Smith has written an excellent article on 25 ways to improve your jQuery. It’s a quite well-written list of tips and tricks.
It’s not written for super-advanced users, nor beginners, rather intermediate users. So you won’t find entry-level tips here, nor will you find advanced explanations on why you should enclose items, or the fastest way [...]
Today we’re going to be looking at the Washington Post site, www.washingtonpost.com. I do not particularly like this site, as I find it cumbersome and annoying to navigate and read. But I do like the paper, and this is the local news, so we’ll start there.
1. Overall Structure
I’ve taken the rendered source code of the [...]
You should have Google host your javascript libraries for you. I, up to recently, downloaded the libraries myself, and updated them myself, thinking it was the correct thing to do.
Boy was I wrong.
Then I tried just linking straight to the Google hosted jQuery library. Better, but not ideal.
Then I ran across this article on the [...]
Allan Jardine has developed a bookmarklet, called Visual Event, which shows the elements on a page that have events subscribed to them, what those events are, and the function that would run when the event was triggered.
This is a great debugging tool to quickly see a high-level interactional aspect of a page. The results come [...]