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jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released – with bada Support

seangw — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:07:45 +0000

In case you missed it, as I did, jQuery Mobile released version 1.0.1 a week ago. The biggest changes seem to be the addition of official Samsung bada support, along with some additional test clients. bada is an operating system for mobile developers developed by Samsung. It doesn’t sound like the team had to do [...]

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jQuery Mobile 1.1 – Fixed Toolbars, Improved Transitions

seangw — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:27:26 +0000

jQuery Mobile 1.1, which will be ready for release in mid/late February, will have some nice updates. I’m sure mobile web developers are happy to hear some of these: Fixed Toolbars – no more repositioning after a scroll, jQuery Mobile will have true fixed toolbars! Even better, purely CSS-based. AMD Support – A CommonJS standard, [...]

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XMLHttpRequest: Learn why Asynchronous is Best

seangw — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:40:56 +0000

Ran across an article on MSDN (I know, right?) about the problems with synchronous XMLHttpRequests, and how it actually causes 8.4% of all hangs in IE9. Synchronous is easier to work with, as it flows just like a user would expect. Asynchronous is slightly tougher to use, as it requires handling the response out of [...]

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Google Translate API: Shutting Down, is there an alternative?

seangw — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:52:29 +0000

Being sick for a few days, I was late in hearing the news. Google is shutting down the Google Translate API. Right now it’s just deprecated, with a full shutdown not occurring until the end of the year, but still … it’s happening. They say it’s because of abuse. Abuse? On the internet? I don’t [...]

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Google Code University: Free Courses, Tutorials and Lectures for Web Development – AJAX, HTML5, HTML, CSS, Javascript and more

seangw — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:51 +0000

I grew up with webmonkey as the single best destination for web developers and any tutorial you could want, but just saw that Google has a Google Code University featuring Tutorials, Contributed course content and Video lectures on: Web Programming HTML CSS Javascript AJAX HTML5 Web Security (yes, web developers should be well versed in [...]

Google Code University: Free Courses, Tutorials and Lectures for Web Development – AJAX, HTML5, HTML, CSS, Javascript and more is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Web development with the iPhone and iPad in Mind

seangw — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:03:13 +0000

In the very near future, I will be posting a series of posts on what you should/shouldn’t be doing to develop a website where the iPhone and iPad are a target demographic. jQuery will figure prominently in the series, as I’ve seen almost all websites now require work with jQuery (or anther AJAX platform). Let me [...]

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HTML Fadein Fadeout: Basic Javascript/AJAX Tutorial using jQuery’s fadeTo

seangw — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:24:19 +0000

In this tutorial we will review: Basic document jQuery preparation Binding jQuery actions to an anchor (A) tag Fading In and Fading Out html elements with Javascript/AJAX If you want some more basic information you can check out some of my other jQuery basic tutorials: Basic AJAX Tutorial: jQuery toggle and slide – Includes AJAX [...]

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Introduction to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

seangw — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:50:45 +0000

JSON, JavaScript Object Notation, is a very useful tool for AJAX developers (and many others I’m sure). XML is fairly difficult for JavaScript to parse out. It also includes quite a bit of infrastructure overhead in certain applications. Implementation of JSON can be very easy, it is imported natively in JavaScript through the eval() [...]

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Basic AJAX Tutorial: Smooth Scrolling Text Marquee with a jQuery plugin

seangw — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:29:37 +0000

This tutorial covers: What is a plugin? Installing a plugin The jQuery Marquee plugin Implementing the jQuery Marquee plugin What is a plugin? A plugin is an addition to the core jQuery functionality. Plugins are made to be simply integrated into an existing jQuery web page. For this tutorial, we will be working with the [...]

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Basic AJAX Tutorial: jQuery toggle and slide

seangw — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:54:52 +0000

In this tutorial we will review: Definition of AJAX Introduction to jQuery Basic document jQuery preparation Binding jQuery actions to an anchor (A) tag Toggling visibility of a div Sliding in and out of that div It sounds like a lot, but it’s all very easy. Definition of AJAX The term AJAX means Asynchronous JavaScript [...]

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