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jQuery and the Air Platform Part 1(updated)

Adobe’s Air API is the hottest way to get your best web based internet applications on to the desktops of your visitors. The runtime allows you to utilize your existing skills in web design to easily create attractive and highly functional cross-operating system applications. Read More

Making the Most of JSON

When I first heard about JSON I was reluctant to give it a try; I was perfectly happy with the XML method of receiving cross-domain external data from the Internet that I had come to know and love. What was the point, I thought, in yet another method of data interchange? What I failed to grasp initially was just how easy JSON is to use and how little processing it actually requires. Read More

Introducing jQuery Part 5

Thanks for reading the final part in the Introduction to jQuery series, in this part of the tutorial we’ll be looking solely at the suite of AJAX functionality provided by the library. One of the worst (and one of the only) downsides of AJAX is that it is implemented differently by different browsers; notably IE and everyone else. The fact that you have to basically write two different functions to achieve one goal can bloat your code and add to its complexity unnecessarily.

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Dialogs and Theming with jQuery UI

In this article I`ll introduce jQuery UI Dialogs. I'll also introduce one of the premiere features of jQuery UI: themes, and will show how they can be used to make a consistent and attractive web application. As in my last article, Drag-and-Drop Shopping Cart with jQuery UI, I'll assume a basic familiarity with jQuery (the base of jQuery UI). You should be comfortable with jQuery syntax and basic selectors.

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Introducing jQuery Part 4

Welcome to Part 4 of the introductory jQuery series; in the last part we looked at the CSS manipulating tools available to us via the library. In this part we’re going to look at the Effects section; this part of the library can really add visual impact and appeal to your pages.

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Flickr & jQuery, a Match Made in Heaven Part 2

Welcome back to the jQuery and Flickr tutorial. In Part 1 we looked at the underlying HTML and CSS required for this example, as well as the PHP proxy and the JavaScript required for getting and displaying the thumbnail images from the Flickr RSS file. In this part of the tutorial we’re going to add some behaviour to our viewer. Like in Part 1, the code used in this part of the tutorial has been extensively tested in the most popular browsers in use on the Windows platform.

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Free - "Edit-in-place" with Spry AJAX

AJAX "Edit-in-place" is a type of functionality which allows users to "edit" various portions of a web page directly in the browser. Clicking on a block of content turns it into an editable form field; clicking away turns it back into a "read-only" text block and saves the changes to the database.

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Flickr & jQuery, a Match Made in Heaven Part 1

Flickr (owned by Yahoo! Since March 2005) is a truly amazing online application which most of you will probably use on a regular basis; it provides not only a place for you to securely upload, store and organise your own photos, but also a place where you can go to share the photos of others, like you, that live for the digital representation of their world.

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Introducing jQuery Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of the jQuery introductory series; during the course of this part we’ll be looking in detail at the range of CSS tools that come with jQuery. While other components provide essential behaviour for your pages, provides the decoration that adds personality to your pages.

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Introducing jQuery Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the jQuery introductory series. In Part 1 we looked at some of the most foundational aspects of the library including how basic element selection is carried out and how jQuery methods can be used on the fundamental jQuery objects created following element selection. Read More

Introducing jQuery Part 1

This introductory article is aimed at those of you that are completely new to the jQuery JavaScript library. During the course of the article we will look at what the library is, where it came from and who made it, as well as how it can be used in your own web pages. It is the first part in a series, with successive articles exposing each of the different core components that make up the library. Over the course of the series we’ll be looking at the advanced events created by the library, managing CSS effectively, and looking in detail at the AJAX aspect of the library.

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Free - Create Record with Spry AJAX

In this video tutorial Alex shows you how to build Insert Record functionality by first running Dreamweaver`s native Record Insertion Form Wizard and then adding Spry Server Action object to make the Insert operation AJAX-based.

As a result, there will be no page refresh and your Spry Table will simply update with the newly created Record.

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