Saturday, July 25, 2009

60+ Must Have jQuery Toolbox | tripwire magazine

60+ Must Have jQuery Toolbox | tripwire magazine: "When developing Web Applications one of the most challenging tasks is to make the solution cross-browser compliant. It’s been this was since the early days of www and it is not likely to change in the near future. Client side scripting is very important for creating interactive functionality and dynamic effects on web pages but Javascript is executed in the client browser and this means they are directly affected by the differences in web browsers. Fortunately some of highly skilled developers have dedicated their precious time and passion to create frameworks that encapsulate most of the browser related difficulties and in many ways makes difficult parts of client side scripting fun and not a nightmare. This article will briefly introduce you to the Javascript framework jQuery and then provide excellent examples of the low hanging fruits waiting for you if you’re starting to use jQuery. jQuery is just one of several frameworks that all have powerful features. Why focus on Javascript frameworks anyway? Because they provide NEED TO HAVE functionality out of the box that can be accessed so easily you wont believe it. Trust me the effects you’re going to roll out soon will impress your co-workers, friends and most important your customers! I’m not going to make any judgement regarding what framework is best as it would be wrong. We should just be grateful that they exist and that skilled developers keep maintaining them and because good alternatives means competition and in the end better solutions. Please comment if some great resources is missing and I’ll add them at once."

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