I published a node.js package to npm called br-jquery, which contains jQuery and provides an alternate path to downloading jQuery and putting it in a repository when starting a jQuery project. It is a lot like jquery-browserify, but it contains a newer version of jQuery (1.7.1) and has the minified version as well. Additionally it [...]
…and I like the new .on() and .off() API for setting up events. I wrote some code that uses it, just for practice. Nothing too fancy.
JavaScript is a prototyping programming language, and as such, has many different ways to define classes or create objects. If you try to search for a tutorial on object-oriented programming in JavaScript, you’ll find that each tutorial has its own way of doing things. It can be very confusing. Fortunately, jQuery UI has a widget [...]
Here’s an example I whipped together to show some of what I learned from reading about the jQuery Event object. It shows that events can pass data as they bubble up. gather.html – demo (my site) gather.html – demo source (github)
jQuery has convenience functions for events like click and keydown, and lets you create and use your own events with bind() and trigger(), but doesn’t provide a way to create your own convenience functions for custom events. I took several lines of code from the jQuery source and created a plugin that makes creating convenience [...]