Wow. Big win for jQuery. Microsoft is apparently planning to distribute the JavaScript library with Visual Studio, and make it the sort-of go-to library for .NET development. I’m still of the mind that backend development frameworks like .NET (and Django, and Rails, and Cake, and Java…) shouldn’t be in the business of “preferring” a particular front-end library, but you can’t really deny that this is a Really Big Deal™ for the jQuery project. Visit site »
Simon throws together a handy snippets which allows for orderable inlines using drag and drop (via jQuery) in the Django admin. Sweet. Visit site »
Google is now serving copies of popular Javascript libraries, including Prototype, Mootools, jQuery, and Dojo, to help with caching. Nice. Visit site »
I’ve been meaning to get my learn on with jQuery for a while now — these Web Designer Wall tutorials seem like a great place to start. Visit site »
If you’ve seen my talk on typography, yo know that the rule of thumb says that narrower columns require less leading (or line-height, in CSS) than wider ones. This cool little plugin for jQuery handles this for you automatically, and works very smoothly. Check out the demo page. Via Wilson. Visit site »
Although I’ve been using YUI a lot lately, I have definitely felt tempted by jQuery. I think I’m going to give it a shot and see what I think — Nathan Smith’s crash course looks like a great place to start. Visit site »
Simon seems poised to do for jQuery what he has done for OpenID. Visit site »
I’ve been mostly using YUI in my last few projects, but Simon definitely makes jQuery look appealing. Might have to give it a good look one of these nights. Visit site »
Pretty sweet. I’d love to do something similar, sans PHP of course. Visit site »