jQuery worth learning?
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- boobs
Show me some examples of cool things that can be done with jQuery? I have no idea of its capabilities.
- ukit0
Really?
- rosem0
for how easy it is. yes.
- clearThoughts0
It can do what flash was doing about 8 years ago.
But because we humans are ambitious and selfish m*therf*ckers, you have to learn how to do it from scratch again.- Umm. Why not just use Flash then?boobs
- because it is a technology owned by a corporation, and other corporations don't like that...clearThoughts
- somebody had to say it...
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- Seanbot0
Yes
- nocomply0
Definitely worth learning. I've neglected it for years, only using bits and pieces as needed.
But recently I've decided to sit down and learn some of the nuts and bolts and it's really powerful. It can easily do a lot of the stuff that I've always wished could be done with css (like selecting only the first or last list element for starters).
It makes dynamically interacting with a server (aka "ajax") pretty easy... meaning you can do cool stuff without having to refresh the page or use oldschool HTML frames.
There's a ton more, but honestly I'm no expert. Just a fan.
- boobs0
Ummm. How about a link to some examples of cool uses? Honestly, I don't mean to seem naive or stupid, but I'm really not aware of the capabilities. Can somebody link me to something cool that was done with jquery?
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- nocomply0
I've used this jquery plugin on a couple projects before. Generally I don't like hiding text like that too often, but it has its place.
http://www.adipalaz.com/experime…I use this plugin to validate my forms before processing them. A lot more elegant than the old-school javascript alert boxes I used to use back in the day:
http://jquery.bassistance.de/val…Remember jquery is just providing the functionality. You can style these examples to look however you want.
The examples I linked are jquery plugins, but for really basic stuff you can write your own code very easily. It does help if you have a background in some kind of programming though.
Best place to learn the basics is on the jquery website. The documentation there is killer.
- dibec0
Absolutely.
- ukit0
Here you go boobs, 175 examples
- SteveJobs0
kinda depends on your interests, or job title
there's still quite a bit you can do in js. jquery is just good for not reinventing the wheel with some of those common things clients ask for or the more ambitious tasks that would be a pain to code yourself and make it cbc.
- ukit0
"It can do what flash was doing about 8 years ago.
But because we humans are ambitious and selfish m*therf*ckers, you have to learn how to do it from scratch again."It never occurred to you that an approach that allows you to write your content in simple HTML, rather than a third party plug-in, might be a good thing?
Perfect example here. The unstyled grid of data is what the user without JS will see, while the user w/ JS gets the styled graphs and charts.
- ukit0
Might also want to take a look here. The official user interface library for JQuery
- ********0
OMG. OMG. OMG.
- BattleAxe0
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- ********0
html5 , jQuery is history now.
- pango0
ok this is the thing.
i'm been doing prints only for quite a while now... i think it's really time to give in and learn all these web thingy...
i like what jQuery can do but i only know basic basic html... any suggestion where should i start?sorry for the thread hijack. i simply didn't want to clutter up the internet spaces.
wth is html5?