JQuery UI - What A Beauty
OK. So, i’m really liking the JQuery UI set. What is it exactly? “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.”
Let me tell you it is beautiful. You first need the JQuery Core. You can download and customize a dynamic zip file just to your specific needs. I downloaded the whole package and threw it up on my server so I could build what ever I wanted.
One of my favorite UI items are the dialog box, date picker, and progress bar.
Sassy. OK. How hard is it to implement? Not very. You just declare a couple functions and set a couple variables and bam! you have a dialog.
I will post some pictures within the next couple days to showcase some work I have done using the JQuery Core framework.
Bottom line - if you really want to snazz up a project, with little coding, but a powerful framework, JQuery is a big recommendation. Has anyone else done anything with JQuery? I would love to see your work.
Hi im Tim and I love to do experiments and take adventures online. Professionally I am a Digital Media Producer out of Boston, MA and design, develop and produce interactive media.
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Ive gotta say since I started playing with jQuery, I love it.
I especially like the ability to make the accordion menus, I think they save space and look great.
Sarah
HI Timothy, why there’s no new posts for a long time?
Timothy Allard
I have quote a few more in the pipeline ready to post, I hope to hear from you again
-Tim
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Thanks for this, we’ve done a bit of work with landing pages on our site recently so it’s nice to get a different viewpoint and a few new ideas at that!
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hi.your way of describing is very good.I am trying to implement an UI with reorder able tabs. What I need is that a tab can be moved left or right. In other words, I need the ability to swap the current selected tab with the tab oo its left or right, depending on what button I click. Does anyone know how to do that?
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Timothy Allard
I am glad everyone likes this! Thank you! Expect more posts soon.
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I have come to know that “using JavaScript frameworks like JQuery, such information (and so much more!) can be retrieved in a browser-independant fashion.” Please tell me how?
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Under IE7 the sortable demo has issues with showing the object being dragged. FireFox 2.0.0.6 on first load didn’t allow the demo to work at all but then after page refresh it began working. I’m still thinking about if I really want to use JQuery and the 83kb download the page would require to do anything with it, and that doesn’t even count my 20kb or so of custom js on top of that. Granted it would be 1 time for my site, it just seems like a lot.
Timothy Allard
Hi James, thanks for commenting! The way I see it is JQUERY is just another way to add some unique features to a website. There are many situations where it may not make sense, but I have come across many projects or tools where I could use upwards of 5 or 6 JQUERY modules in the project. So, I would say each website or tool could be treated differently but in my case i worked out as a perfect solution.
Load time is not currently an issue. I have a very dynamic web tool running with my JQUERY modules and it is loading fine. But its great to be thinking about that.
I cant wait for the day where loadtime does not have to be taken into consideration. It is close, I can feel it!