jQuery Script to Automatically Preload images from CSS
"When we first launched the lab, we released a jQuery plugin that automatically preloads all images referenced in CSS files. We've found the script to be incredibly helpful in developing snappy applications where images are always ready when we need them. This post describes a significant update to the script which will make it even easier to integrate in existing projects."
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jQuick - Quick Tag Creator for JQuery
jQuick is a quick tag creator for jQuery written by Francesco Sullo. "During the development of the first releases of PassPack, I adopted Easy DOM Creation by Michael Geary to quickly manage the DOM elements. But, in january, with the beta4 version of PassPack I needed to overcome Michael's library's limits (due to the compatibility with Prototype). So I developed jQuick. I hope you find it useful."
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Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails
"By default, Rails comes packed with the Prototype javascript library and the effects library, Scriptaculous. While this is all well and good sometimes you want a change. I personally prefer jQuery to prototype. I don’t have any beef with prototype, infact I used it for about a year before even getting into rails, but I just prefer the jQuery syntax and selectors."
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Sliding Top Menu With jQuery
This is a sliding top menu built with jQuery which can be fired through the open, and close buttons or with any tag with the related class name. You can also use it as an info box, login area, and more.
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Coda Slider Effect
Although Panic didn't really invent the effect, the sliding panels on the Coda is great implementation of this effect. This article will pick apart the pieces required to create the effect, and how to better it. Recreating this effect is simple to do if you know what plugins to use.
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AJAX Libraries API - Google Code
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including, jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, Moo Tools, and dojo.
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How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery
In this tutorial Nettuts takes as they say,"an average everyday website and enhancing it with jQuery. We will be adding ajax functionality so that the content loads into the relevant container instead of the user having to navigate to another page. We will also be integrating some awesome animation effects." Very fun AJAX tutorial.
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QuarkRuby - Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery
jQuery is a JavaScript library which follows unobtrusive paradigm for application development using JavaScript. jQuery inherently supports Behavior driven development and is based on traversing HTML documents using CSS Selectors. On the other hand, Prototype is a JavaScript library for Class driven development which makes life easier working with JavaScript. Prototype library has a good support in Ruby on Rails via helper functions.
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jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions
jQuery UI is a set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications. The core of the library revolves around different mouse interactions, namely drag and dropping, sorting, selecting, and resizing. On top of the core interactions are built a number of reusable widgets, including accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, table sorters, and tabs. Finally, the library is finished off with a few effects that you can use to liven up your site, specifically magnifier and shadow.
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