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For a long time now, web developers have searched for and used a variety of techniques to target styles to specific browsers and browser versions to fix incorrect implementations of web standards or simply bugs. The biggest culprit of the bunch is our good friend Internet Explorer.

As developers we have moved on from the various style sheet hacks such as * and _ and embraced conditional comments to target specific versions of IE. While this works, it does add an …

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The first Alpha release of the jQuery Mobile framework has been released for a while now and more and more people are getting involved logging bugs and providing feedback. But some of us might want to get involved even more by actually contributing fixes to code as well as documentation, demos etc. The jQuery Mobile project has set-up the project in such a way that it is pretty straight forward for anyone to start contributing but, I have seen quite …

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Recently I posted two articles about one of the new official jQuery plugins called jQuery Templates here and here. Another of these plugins is the jQuery DataLink plugin (Download from GitHub). Essentially what the DataLink plugin does is create a two way, although you can configure it to be one-way only, link between a JavaScript object, a form and it’s elements. So what do I mean by this exactly? Well, it means that when any of the values in the form …

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Web applications are getting more and more advanced and with that complexity and much off what drives this new era in web development is JavaScript. So, we have all encountered the pain of having to concatenate long strings of JavaScript variables and HTML to build up the dynamic section of the DOM we wish to manipulate and what a maintenance nightmare this can quickly become. Anyone that has been writing JavaScript for some time remembers the days of the document.write …

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So the new official jQuery plug-ins developed by Microsoft has been released a couple of days ago and I for one am very excited. The release consists of a trio of plugins, the jQuery Template plugin, jQuery DataLink as well as jQuery Globalization. I attended a online conference a month or so ago where Rey Bango (@reybango) introduced jQuery Templates. Throughout the talk I went from loving it, to not being sure about it but, in the end I was …