John On Web Stuff » jquery http://blog.geekyjohn.com My take on web things. Sometimes witty. Sharing of stuff. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:26:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 We want all fo the data all of the time http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2010/03/we-want-all-fo-the-data-all-of-the-time/ http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2010/03/we-want-all-fo-the-data-all-of-the-time/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:17:11 +0000 John http://blog.geekyjohn.com/?p=224 Sometimes we need to display a ridiculous amount of information be on the screen, whether that is product information, statistics, or other tabular type data. This often presents several problems:

There isn’t enough room to display this data

  • There is enough room, but it’s all crammed in to a small space (Who needs white space, right?)
  • There is too much on the screen for the user to absorb
  • Etc.

We’ve all seen Accordions and the like that help display lists with lots of information nicely. What about if we could take that to the next level and use it in a grid, not just a horizontal or vertical execution.

Grid Accordion does just that :-)

http://css-tricks.com/examples/InfoGrid/

Just thought I would throw a solution to a reasonably common problem out there.

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via Advanced docking using jQuery.

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p>I wouldn’t mind using something like this on a website sometime. On the right site, this could be an invaluable tool.

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via jQuery Highlight Plugin | bartaz @ GitHub.

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A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a delay between jQuery functions. This small but very useful plugin that has saved me a lot of time. I haven’t done a lot of testing, but because the plugin is so small and simple (only 212 bytes!) I don’t think I could have missed much! ^^ via jQuery Delay Plugin – EvanBot.com.

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]]> http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2009/04/jquery-delay-plugin-evanbotcom/feed/ 2 jQuery API browser http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2009/02/what-you-need-to-know-about-jquery-13-nettuts/ http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2009/02/what-you-need-to-know-about-jquery-13-nettuts/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:25:44 +0000 John http://blog.afterlight.net.au/?p=109 If you use jQuery (or have to deal with jQuery code written by others), a new API browser has been released to coincide with the release of jQuery 1.3

http://api.jquery.com/ features a very nice search indeed, you can type in any of the jQuery functions and the list of results is update in real time. A big plus for me is that there is an offline browser that uses AIR as I often work while traveling and often need to look up some obscure option or method.

And for everyone that wants to know the details about the latest stuff in jQuery 1.3 – NetTuts has an article to tell you Everything You Need to Know About jQuery 1.3

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With the 1.3.x releases, the jQuery developers have also decided to stop providing a “packed” version of the script, the reasons cited being performance and compatibility reasons. The minified (and gzipped) version is still available.

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]]> http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2009/01/jquery-131-released/feed/ 0 JavaScript Will Save Us All http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2008/10/javascript-will-save-us-all/ http://blog.geekyjohn.com/2008/10/javascript-will-save-us-all/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:25:54 +0000 John http://blog.afterlight.net.au/?p=38 A while back, I woke up one morning thinking, John Resig’s got some great CSS3 support in jQuery but it’s all forced into JS statements. I should ask him if he could set things up like Dean Edwards‘ IE7 script so that the JS scans the author’s CSS, finds the advanced selectors, does any necessary backend juggling, and makes CSS3 selector support Transparently Just Work. And then he could put that back into jQuery. Eric’s Archived Thoughts: JavaScript Will Save Us All.

I love CSS, I love jquery. This sounds like an awesome solution to one of those annoying little problems. Backwards compatibility.

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