Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Do many of you use JQuery styles in your sites?" I have been using it for about a year. Users are becoming more sophisticated. They no longer want to wait for full page reloads or relocations for information. They want a more interactive experience like an operating system GUI. This has help

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-02 Thread Robert Munn
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > That's interesting, Robert. I actually have a paid subscription to the > Ext library but haven't seen this. Does this actually help show where > the error is *in my code*? Because that's the problem I've always had > with Ext. I'll miss a

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Larry C. Lyons
We're starting to. We'll be rolling out a site over the next couple of weeks that use JQuery in a lot of places. We use several plugins, tablesorter, superfish, and the jqueryUI library as well. The next iteration of this site we're going to use jQuery and JQuery UI a lot more. larry On Thu, J

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > I've just started a new admin using JQuery UI and jqGrid. jqGrid is nice. You can do some pretty fancy stuff with it... -Cameron ... ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Antho

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
actually, it uses jQuery(function). I believe that $(function) was added because other older libraries had started the trend..prototype.js being one of the major ones. But, if the $ bothers you, just use the jQuery(function) version. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > I

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Stoner
Its not really a naming convention but rather a shortcut to its core "JQuery" object. So there is only the one object that uses the $. If you really dislike it you can use jQuery.whatever() instead. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > I have barely used JQuery, having focus

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Munn
I have barely used JQuery, having focused on Flex and ExtJS instead. One thing that annoys me, perhaps a bit irrationally, is how JQuery uses $ as a naming convention. Can anyone explain why that is? On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Vivec wrote: > > Came across this article on using JQuery to spi

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
I actually just recently wrote up a little "about jQuery". some highlights: As close to a standard as their is: - Microsoft ships it with Visual Studio, and integrates it - Wordpress uses it as its JS library - Google and Microsoft have CDN versions of all the libraries Lots of people

RE: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Justin Scott
> Do many of you use JQuery styles in your sites? I don't have exact specifics, but if I'm remembering correctly jQuery is used on something like 30% or more of new projects and being brought into older projects quickly as well. Personally, I'm not a UI programmer and don't use many of its featu

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
That's interesting, Robert. I actually have a paid subscription to the Ext library but haven't seen this. Does this actually help show where the error is *in my code*? Because that's the problem I've always had with Ext. I'll miss a comma or brace or mistype the option or some such and then one of

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Munn
Funny, I've been using ExtJS, and I always had the same problem with the error isolation, until I got into the subscription-only forums, where someone actually answered my question and provided a link in the forum to a way to automatically include the source (individual) JS files for Ext, which ma

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
actually, let me clarify about blueprint. I thought blueprint was pretty damn ugly and a hack because you would do stuff like this: Header Left Nav Content Window Footer Which would give you a 2 column layout with a header and footer, all within a 960px container with 24 columns o

RE: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Sisk, Kris
JQuery rocks. It's amazing how quickly you can build eye candy with it, and it's become a main component in my AJAX toolbox since I started using it. -Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:05 AM To: cf-community Subject: JQuery is the

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
Yes, both at work as part of Wordpress and in some wordpress plugins I wrote, and now for hobby-time genealogy content display and admin. Very cool. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > I've just started a new admin using JQuery UI and jqGrid. Pretty nice > so far and more

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
I've just started a new admin using JQuery UI and jqGrid. Pretty nice so far and more light weight than ExtJS that I was using before. The biggest thing that I like about it, so far, is that errors are easier to isolate. Whenever I had an error in my ExtJS code, the actual JS error would be thrown

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I use a combination of jQuery, jQueryUI & blueprint on all my sites. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Vivec wrote: > > Came across this article on using JQuery to spice up websites > > > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/15/spice-up-your-website-with-jquery-goodness/ > > I have a client

Re: JQuery is the new Awesome

2010-07-01 Thread Scott Stroz
I love jQuery. I use it on just about every project. jQuery UI with themeroller are the cat's balls. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Vivec wrote: > > Came across this article on using JQuery to spice up websites > > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/15/spice-up-your-website-with-jquery-go