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My jQuery editorial for the Code Magazine Newsletter went live today. It turned into a rather lengthy affair (what else is new?) even though it’s a high level editorial and so doesn’t show code. The piece discusses jQuery’s functionality, benefits and some considerations for ASP.NET integration, but keep in mind that this is an editorial discussion rather than a ‘how to article’ (which will follow soon). You can also post comments here if you like.

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.

In my previous article “Labels in form layouts” I wrote about how I, together with my team, implemented “underlined labels” on web application forms. However, due to complexity of our forms we needed to find a way to focus a user on a current context. I decided to do this by using jQuery because of its powerful features.

Nearly every RIA development framework out there has some amount of built in or easy to employ animations, whether it be Flex’s effects, states and transitions, a JavaScript framework like JQuery and Interface or Prototype with Script.aculo.us, or Silverlight’s Storyboard animations and the VisualState Manager, you can find toolkits that will assist you in creating optimized animations, many complete with easing and callback functions. Here is an article to help you decide what techniques to use to inform and empower your users when designing interface feedback with animation.

What we came up with, was an API that removed 95% of our exposed methods, and kept only one single overloaded method per plugin. It was extremely important that jQuery UI v1.5 was not only feature-rich but also stable. We took several steps to greatly improve our debugging and testing. Enchant is now a part of jQuery UI and jQuery users now have a unified solution for their effects and UI needs. ThemeRoller offers a unique approach to theming UI components specifically built for jQuery UI. The biggest improvements and changes were done on individual plugin code. Almost every plugin has been completely rewritten from scratch to optimize stability and performance.

In this tutorial, you’ll see how can you shuffle the block by overlapping one by another block using jquery. No plugin is used. Pure jquery’s code is used…..

The latest Refcard, jQuery Selectors written by authors Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz, has been released and is now available for immediate download in PDF format.

jQuery selectors are one of the most important aspects of the jQuery library. These selectors use familiar CSS syntax to allow page authors to quickly and easily identify any set of page elements to operate upon with the jQuery library methods. Understanding jQuery selectors is the key to using the jQuery library most effectively. This reference card puts the power of jQuery selectors at your very fingertips.

Understanding jQuery selectors is the key to using the jQuery library most effectively. This reference card puts the power of jQuery selectors at your very fingertips.

Clean jQuery implementation of endless / infinite page scroll.

Over the past few weeks, I think I have definitely embodied Jeff Atwood’s claim that we’re all amateurs, learning together. Despite my best efforts to thoroughly test before posting, a few problems slipped through in my recent posts about using jQuery to consume ASP.NET JSON serialized web services and using jQuery to call ASP.NET AJAX page methods.