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A couple of days ago I was watching a talk by Paul Irish at the jQuery Boston Conference. During his talk he mentioned video for everybody. Now, Video for Everyone does not use JavaScript to achieve it’s objective but simply a predefined chunk of HTML.

I thought I would take a stab at creating a jQuery plugin that would do something similar to Video for Everybody but instead, for audio. Because I am using JavaScript and not a chunk of HTML to …

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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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The jQueryMobile  Framework announced it’s first Alpha release on the 16th of October. I must say I have been waiting for this with baited breath ever since John Resig (@jeresig) announced the project at the Tech4Africa conference earlier this year. I have also been working with the jQuery API search by Karl Swedberg (@kswedberg).

I have created a jQuery API search plugin for Chrome some time ago, which needs a serious update, but have always wanted to extend the possible ways you can …

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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 …