Learning jQuery

This post, my 55th on Learning jQuery, is a departure from the usual jQuery tutorials and announcements. It’s about my experience speaking at the Future of Web Design (FOWD) conference in New York City this week. I’m writing it mostly for myself, to set down in writing my thoughts about what went right and what […]

Re-posted from Rey Bango’s blog. As many of you have seen by now, the jQuery Project’s site has been redesigned. It had been a long overdue task and it was important to put a fresh new spin on the main hub, and the face, of jQuery. One of the things about the jQuery Project is […]

A common feature I’ve seen on “web 2.0” sites and wikis is the “external link” icon: . While I’m not crazy about the idea of sticking these little images all over the HTML, they’re a great candidate for using progressive enhancement. In our case, we can use jQuery to add the images pretty easily.

As many of you have discovered by now, jquery.com and its subdomains have been offline intermittently over the past several weeks. On behalf of the jQuery Project Team, I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. John Resig is aware of the problem and is working with the hosting company to get things resolved as […]

A few months ago I threw together a quick redesign of the Learning jQuery site. It’s nothing fancy, mind you, but I was itching to retire the thin veil covering the tired old WordPress Kubrick theme, so something had to be done. Almost immediately upon changing the font-family and font-size of the blog post titles, […]

After many months of stellar work, the jQuery UI team has released version 1.5 of their flagship suite of user-interface widgets, components, and effects. This release was focused on bringing you a standardized development API across all of the components, allowing for a more seamless experience when working with the jQuery UI library.