I just started playing with jsFiddle, which is an online tool that allows you to test and share HTML/JavaScript fragments. It’s a really neat tool – I’m not entirely sure what it’s boundaries are quite yet, but it’s been pretty amazing so far. The interface is fairly intuitive – just three panes for HTML, JavaScript, [...]
jQuery 1.4 is officially out now! The jQuery team is in the process of doing a 14-days-of-jQuery-1.4 promotion, which will run through the 28th of January. This is a major release, with much of the jQuery framework being rewritten in addition to a lot of new functionality. The last major release of jQuery was in [...]
Google just open sourced Closure, their robust JavaScript library. Closure is used in a variety of Google products, notably GMail and Google Docs. I had a chance to play with it for a few minutes, and I’m posting my first impressions. Google Closure is a fairly complete JavaScript framework. In that sense, it duplicates a [...]
I just found this preview of jQuery 1.4. I read some of this stuff at the jQuery site, but this is a nice explanation of the proposed functionality of the next major version of jQuery. I think the new ‘live’ event handlers are going to be great. I can’t stress how much the ‘live’ method [...]
I’ve just released my latest plugin, the jQuery UI Image Carousel! The plugin is a standard-fare image carousel, and it’s also fully compatible with jQuery UI. It’s got a few options that make it fairly versatile – from a minimal look all the way to a collapsible version with a custom header. The JavaScript itself [...]
I’ve updated my image overlay plugin yet again, to version 1.2. Again, it was a fairly minor enhancement – I added the ability to turn off the animation via an option. The translucent image overlay effect is popping up all over the web nowadays, and I want to make sure that my plugin implementation offers [...]
A quick note – I’ve updated my jQuery Image Overlay Plugin to version 1.1. This version adds support for pinning the overlay so it is always viewable (not just when you mouse over the image). There were no other changes, so you should be able to upgrade without worry.
Here’s a 3D CSS Animated Image Carousel that I created while I was learning about 3D CSS animation. Watch the video above to see the technique in action. If you’re on a 3D CSS animation capable browser (currently a non-production version of MAC Safari and mobile Safari in the iPhone and iPod Touch), go ahead [...]
Here’s a GeoLocator example I put together that showcases two popular GeoLocation techniques – IP lookup and using the GeoLocation API – in order to both demonstrate the techniques as well as to show the issues with each. In HTML, there are a few ways of determining the location of a user. Traditionally, this has [...]
I’ve created my first jQuery plugin this week – it’s an image overlay plugin (the static pic above doesn’t do the plugin justice, so click through to see it in action). Creating a jQuery plugin isn’t that big a stretch for a competent JavaScript developer. There are quite a few tutorials out there where you [...]
