The project I’m working on at the moment is in Groovy. In order to set JSON on page load, you have to escape either single quotes or double quotes.

var myJSON = ‘this is the cat\’s first day in Marc\’s house’; // JavaScript string

With groovy, you can cast something as JSON and set it to the view pretty easily…

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After all, there are plenty of great services out there that can slice up and code your files for you. But there are those cases when you may prefer to slice those designs by yourself.

That’s where From Photoshop to HTML: How to Slice Your Designs Like a Pro by Jeffrey Way, editor of Nettuts+, comes in…

Since the introduction of the iPad, with its lack of the Flash Player, there’s an acceleration in the web development world to use alternative technologies to Flash, such as jQuery, Ajax and others.

Although Flash is still a very powerful and useful tool, which works great on many cases, several of the effects that web designers are accustomed to creating in Flash, can be just as easily implemented using jQuery…

We are regulalry collecting useful JavaScript and jQuery snippets, libraries, articles, tools and resources and present them in compact round-ups here, on Noupe. This time we are again covering some useful JavaScript and jQuery techniques, plugins and tools that may help you improve the user experience for your site.

Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques

Colorful Sliders With jQuery & CSS3 In this tutorial we are using jQuery and the new transformation features brought by CSS3 to create a three dimensional dynamic slider effect…

• I take someone’s copyright work
• Often I take the copyright work of 100s of people
• I access the source code of the software and reverse engineer it
• I then create software modifications and packages that modify the operation of the original software, often in ways not intended or approved by the copyright owners…

Normal if statements

Nothing special here, just a normal if statement.

foo = "bar";
if ( foo == "bar" ) {
foo = "something";
} else {
foo = "somethingElse";
}

If statements can be written without curly brackets

foo = "bar";
if ( foo == "bar")
foo = "something";
else
foo = "somethingElse";

What people don’t like about this is if you need to do another action inside the if statement, then you have to manually go back and wrap it in curly brackets…

For those of you who been reading my blog should be familiar with Zurb. They are the guys who created those fantastic web apps — Bounce, Notable, and Verify. If you read online tutorials a lot, you may have probably stumbled upon their Playground before where they post various CSS and Javascript tutorials. Today, I’m happy to have Zurb here at Web Designer Wall to talk about their team and work…

$.get(url, data, function, "html/json/xml..");
$.post(url, data, function, "html/json/xml..");
$.ajax({
…
dataType: "html/json/xml.."
});

Now, you can have the server respond with the mime type like application/json and jQuery will automatically switch the dataType for you! This makes more sense because the server is the one sending the response, jQuery is only handling it…

Want to download the presentation? PDF of jQuery Essentials

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HTML String, or jQuery Object?

The first question you have to ask yourself is whether or not it makes sense to build out HTML as jQuery objects, or if you require the speed of building strings…

Written Articles

• Getting Started with jQuery – this is the official jQuery getting started guide.
• jQuery for JavaScript Programmers – Simon Willison (creator of django) gives you an introduction to jQuery for people who already understand JavaScript.
• jQuery Crash Course – Nathan Smith gives a quick introduction to jQuery on Digital Web Magazine…

Then comes the obligatory: “How are we going to measure it?” and, “When will we set business goals?” or, “Are we just doing this for the hell of it ‘cause everybody else does?” All are reasonable questions…

Seeing a lot of [...]…

Converting your code to the new async code might seem like it’s just a hassle, but there are benefit to using the new code. Because the code loads asynchronously, there’s no longer any danger that it will interfere with the loading of the rest of your page…

Converting your code to the new async code might seem like it’s just a hassle, but there are benefit to using the new code. Because the code loads asynchronously, there’s no longer any danger that it will interfere with the loading of the rest of your page…