Archive for the ‘Javascript’ Category

B2B: Ajax in JQuery with special effects

Posted by michael on January 31st, 2007 under Code, Javascript
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Today’s article is going to cover using the excellent JQuery library to implement an AJAX username availability checker (along with a bit of eye candy to show the results). The use of visual effects with AJAX can occasionally be quite tricky, depending on what you need to do - fades by definition will take a [...]

Annoying, uncommon bugs

Posted by james on January 19th, 2007 under Internet Explorer, Javascript
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This post is dedicated to those little bugs that only seem to happen to your project, and no one else on the Internet. Luckily, this wasn’t completely the case this time, as I did manage to find some links after modifying my search query numerous times.
First of all, something arbitrary:
Prototype 1.5.0_rc2’s AJAX works in IE, [...]

Back to Basics prologue

Posted by michael on January 15th, 2007 under Code, Javascript, MySQL
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Next week will see the launch of the Back to Basics project - for five consecutive days, starting on Monday, a different and new article will be posted covering a topic that the Web Expose team believe is important for beginner developers to grasp and understand. This project aims to improve the base skills of [...]

jQuery Pop-up Menu Tutorial

Posted by james on December 28th, 2006 under Javascript, jQuery
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Ok, so I’ve had some time to play with jQuery, and whipped up a quick DHTML pop-up link menu (mouse over menu). Let’s get started:
Download the jQuery library (direct link) and put it somewhere in your project directory. I renamed the file to jquery.js because I was lazy. You can now include the file in [...]

jQuery Javascript library

Posted by james on December 18th, 2006 under Javascript, jQuery
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Whilst looking through several javascript libraries (Prototype and MooTools, amongst others), I came across the jQuery javascript library. For once, this seems to be a library that actually inspires some interest in me - I have yet to properly play with it (check back later today), but for now the examples and applications developed on [...]