FerretArmy: A Web Developer's Paradise

A quick overview of the jQuery templating API.

There are a ton of jQuery selectors to get at just about any data imaginable on a page. Between actual selectors (such as ID and attribute selectors) and pseudo-selectors (such as :first and :checked), the bulk of HTML element selection is trivial. There are, however, a few selectors I’ve had a need for but aren’t [...]

There have been a distinct lack of updates recently on FerretArmy.com – chock it up to having to do a lot of work-induced overtime over the past few months. Either way, in order to usher in some fresher content, I’ve updated my Image Overlay plugin to version 1.3. Changes are that you no longer need [...]

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 [...]

Most of the time when you want to cancel an action on a web page, such as a button click, you’d return false in the client-side button event handler, as such: <a href=”blah…” onclick=”return DoAction();”>Link</a> … function DoAction() { /*Do Something */ return false; }; However, there’s a better way, using the event.preventDefault() method. I [...]

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.