Great work Mitch - if someone wants to beat me to you, you should move this over to the wiki. I'll try to take a stab at it, if I can remember.
--John On 8/16/07, Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this is a very stimulating topic - the responses have given me > a lot of insights to the frameworks of which jQuery belongs. > > I see there are some big issues here that kind of scare me, the one > that stood out to me is the claim that jQurey is not for beginners who > don't know the DOM, CSS and JS. > > I would contend that it is precisely the beginner that jQuery appeals > to. > > Using myself as a test case - I came in knowing a little bit about JS, > a bit more about CSS and pretty much nothing about DOM.. > > I had tried to use JS and CSS to do some fancy interface work and > really got stuck in the complexities of JS. Then I found JQ and the > world rocked for me. Suddenly I could do amazing things with my GUIs. > Sure I had holes in my knowledge bank, and its shown in this mailing > list, but I think you will admit this is a pretty impressive interface > for a beginner to make: > > http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Complete_Search_Tab.html > > I have tons to learn but what a great and fun way to get started! > > I do think there is one hole in the JQ web site and that is there are > not enough real life examples. > > To that end I am putting together jQuery Cheat Sheet (TM) (C) How To. > > I plan to make this available for everyone to contibute to. These two > How Tos are examples of the format I am proposing to begin with. If > anyone has any suggestions would love to hear them. If you have some > suggestions for How Tos let me know and I will try and create them. I > was thinking of making this into some kind of wiki like system where > it would allow poeple to create How Tos that ended up in this standard > format when formatted. > > http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/jQuery_How_Do_I_not.html > > http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/jQuery_How_Do_I_attr.html > > The JQ web site and other sites do a great job on explaining the API > (even if most of the examples dont show up correclty in IE7) - whats > missing is the practical side of the package. Real world non verbose > examples of how to use the important features presented in a non > trival but lucid manner, with the key concepts listed for indexing as > well as the discussion is key to these working. > > Mitch > >
