Embracing jQuery: User Experience Design is your complete guide to building modern dynamic web sites using jQuery, the extremely popular lightweight and efficient JavaScript library. As you’d expect, this book provides a thorough explanation of jQuery’s syntax and grammar, and explains how to put together a wide range of popular effects and animations that you can use to add jQuery interactivity to your web sites. The book then goes further. Combining the skills of a web (more…)

jQuery’s popularity in the Ruby on Rails community has been growing in recent months. jQuery, with its unobtrusive nature, has got developers thinking in ways that they haven’t done before. jQuery is doing for the implementation of JavaScript what CSS did for the old school table layouts. Ruby on Rails, with its convention over configuration and full stack, makes it extremely simple (and secure) to get a professional web application up and running. Practical Rails wit (more…)

JavaScript is essential for creating modern, interactive Web sites. But, unlike HTML and CSS, JavaScript is a true programming language with complex rules that are challenging for most Web designers to learn. In JavaScript: The Missing Manual, bestselling author David McFarland teaches you how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways — even if you have little or no programming experience. In a clear, entertaining way, the book starts out by teaching you how to build a basic Java (more…)

A Comprehensive Exploration of the Popular JavaScript Library Organized menu to every method, function, and selector in the jQuery libraryQuickly look up features of the jQuery libraryUnderstand the anatomy of a jQuery scriptExtend jQuery’s built-in capabilities with plug-ins, and even write your ownIn Detail jQuery is a powerful, yet easy-to-use JavaScript library that helps web developers and designers add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser (more…)

Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques Create better, cross-platform JavaScript codeLearn detailed solutions to specific client-side problemsFor web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designsFor developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications.In Detail jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of t (more…)

Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted plugin for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a trusted platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility, stability, and a minimum of time and effort. jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and dev (more…)

jQuery is a popular JavaScript library that simplifies event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. Many companies are using jQuery including: Amazon, Google, Twitter, Bank of America, BBC, ESPN, CBS News, Digg, Reuters, IBM, Netflix, Dell, Oracle, Slashdot, Tecnorati, and Intuit.Even casual web designers, who create web pages for fun, want to add the latest cool effects to their sites, and jQuery–the fast, flexible JavaScript library–is a tool o (more…)

A really good web development framework anticipates your needs. jQuery does more-it practically reads your mind. Developers fall in love with this JavaScript library the moment they see 20 lines of code reduced to three. jQuery is concise and readable.jQuery in Action, Second Edition is a fast-paced introduction and guide. It shows you how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax to your web pages. The book’s unique “lab pages” anchor the expla (more…)