[jQuery] Re: Looking for a Good JavaScript Editor that Supports JQuery

2009-08-02 Thread chris thatcher
+1 Aptana. excellent for javascript in general, comes with support for jquery 1.3 enhanced code support. excellent html and css editor as well. built on eclipse framework without all the java editor bulk. 2009/8/2 cfddream 371486...@qq.com Aptana? -- Ever

[jQuery] Re: jQuery i18n

2009-06-29 Thread chris thatcher
check out the data picker from jquery-ui. It has excellent i18n. http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#localization On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Chris Ford christophertf...@gmail.comwrote: Are you sure that you need to worry about i18n in your jQuery? So long as you haven't hardcoded any

[jQuery] Re: get email and send email?

2009-06-17 Thread chris thatcher
just to make things terribly confusing ;) javascript is actually ecmascript, which can be used anywhere an implementation of the scripting engine is available. On the server you can use spidermonkey (a c++ implementation from mozilla), rhino(a java implementation also from mozilla), etc. On the

[jQuery] Re: jQuery's code first lin e (function(){・・・・・

2009-06-09 Thread chris thatcher
Its called an anonymous closure and prevents jquery from leaking variables into the global scope. The anonymous closure is a function that is defined without a name. //named functions a very common //they are just functions assigned to a variable var myfunction = function(){}; //the anonymous

[jQuery] jQuery powering the new Library of Congress Metasearch App

2009-06-04 Thread chris thatcher
Hey jQuery Community, I wanted to announce another feather in jQuery's hat. The new Library of Congress Metasearch application was quietly released today and the interface is entirely driven with jquery and jquery-claypool. It's a single url app that is all ajax after that so make sure you turn

[jQuery] Re: just a shout out

2009-05-28 Thread chris thatcher
Thanks to Jack and Rey, I have posted several thank you's to the jquery-en list and/or the jquery-dev list and/or individual developers for jquery. jQuery has provided an outlet for me as a programmer as much as an artist like a painter, etc enough. Jack I thank you for your thank-you, and Rey

[jQuery] Re: Code Review: slideshow plugin using JSON

2009-05-26 Thread chris thatcher
. Stefan On May 21, 2:49 pm, chris thatcher thatcher.christop...@gmail.com wrote: nice work stefan, i checked out the example and will look under the covers sometime tonight. I'm actually at the library of congress (i work here) so it was great to see those images from our prints

[jQuery] Re: Code Review: slideshow plugin using JSON

2009-05-21 Thread chris thatcher
nice work stefan, i checked out the example and will look under the covers sometime tonight. I'm actually at the library of congress (i work here) so it was great to see those images from our prints and photographs division. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Stefan Hayden alt...@gmail.com wrote:

[jQuery] Re: How to print json data, key and value

2009-05-20 Thread chris thatcher
$.each(data, function(index, item){ var name; for(name in item){ console.log(name + = + item[name]);} }); On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Massimiliano Marini m...@linuxtime.itwrote: Hi Charlie, I'm not good at explaining the exact terms javascript definitions for value and key but

[jQuery] Re: non-recursive find?

2009-05-19 Thread chris thatcher
Nodes_A = $( NodeType_2, NodeType_4, xml); Nodes_B = $( NodeType_1, NodeType_5, xml); On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:16 AM, ryan.j ryan.joyce...@googlemail.comwrote: could get NodeType_1 then get it's .siblings()? On May 19, 8:49 am, Ari ari.hayri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I parse XML with

[jQuery] Re: XSLT problem in JQuery

2009-05-19 Thread chris thatcher
i have an active jquery-xslt project that is used in production settings. its setup to have the xslt precompiled once for heavy reuse, and created a jquery-plugin as the result. i use it to transform xml to json. it also provides a callback for post transform, and does not autmatically append

[jQuery] Re: XSLT problem in JQuery

2009-05-19 Thread chris thatcher
of course it is based on johann burkards plugin, but just optimized for what i needed it for. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:53 PM, chris thatcher thatcher.christop...@gmail.com wrote: i have an active jquery-xslt project that is used in production settings. its setup to have the xslt precompiled

[jQuery] Re: Events - Live -v- Livequery

2009-05-18 Thread chris thatcher
fascinating, i didn't even know you could do that... On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Brandon Aaron brandon.aa...@gmail.comwrote: Only Live Query supports calling a function when an element is matched (or unmatched). If you need this functionality, then you'll need to stick with Live Query.

[jQuery] Re: Parsing XML and appending to an array?

2009-05-07 Thread chris thatcher
i think what you want is $('image', responsexml).each() otherwise you are asking for each response element of which there is only one. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Alan at DSI aart...@speedscript.com wrote: I'm new to jQuery and what I am trying to do is take the XML response below and

[jQuery] Re: The jQuery Prototype Object and Working with Others' jQuery Plug-Ins

2009-05-07 Thread chris thatcher
roddy, nice to meet you. reponse is inline On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM, kiusau kiu...@mac.com wrote: QUESTION ONE: When is use of the jQuery prototype object appropriate, and when is it not? i am not a jquery core or ui developer so this response must be taken with a grain of salt. it

[jQuery] Re: The jQuery Prototype Object and Working with Others' jQuery Plug-Ins

2009-05-07 Thread chris thatcher
blah my keyboard had is heavy and i hit send before i meant to. continuing for roddy inline On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:06 PM, chris thatcher thatcher.christop...@gmail.com wrote: roddy, nice to meet you. reponse is inline On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM, kiusau kiu...@mac.com wrote

[jQuery] Re: The jQuery Object, Namespaces, and Program Modules -- Connecting the Dots Between jQuery and Javascript

2009-05-06 Thread chris thatcher
5) learn to depend on firebug. its an extension to firefox as a plugin and even though safari 4 beta , ie8, and opera 10 all have built-in debugging environments, firebug is still the best. i have a feeling it will be built into firefox soon too. you can inspect the live dom, any elements

[jQuery] jquery-claypool

2009-05-05 Thread chris thatcher
Announcing jQuery-Claypool (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Claypool) jquery-claypool is a small, concise, fast, railable javascript application framework, built as a jquery-plugin that provides all the usual important patterns for large, long-lived client-side apps, server-side apps, or

[jQuery] Re: The jQuery Object, Namespaces, and Program Modules -- Connecting the Dots Between jQuery and Javascript

2009-05-05 Thread chris thatcher
i would recommend studying jquery.collections by ariel flesler. http://flesler.blogspot.com/2008/01/jquerycollection.html i recommend this for several reasons: 1) it's a plugin - understanding plugins is part of the core architectural pattern. 2) it mimicks jquery's core architecture - a

[jQuery] plugin mentors

2009-02-23 Thread chris thatcher
I was wondering if there was any interest I could stir up in the experienced plugin developer community to participate in volunteering to act as mentors for less experienced plugin developers get projects ready for release by providing constructive criticism and feedback about what work a plugin

[jQuery] Re: Welcome

2009-02-23 Thread chris thatcher
Apologies for the cross post. It's a one time event to try to get the list rolling. If you are interested in participating please join us at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-mentors Thanks Thatcher On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Thatcher thatcher.christop...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome

[jQuery] Re: [jquery-dev] Re: XPath for objects

2008-11-01 Thread chris thatcher
foundation for plugins that are 'template-centric', eg i18n, capitalize, title, lorem ipsum, etc. Seems useful to me and very jquery-like thanks to jquery.collections. Cheers On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:10 AM, chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Becuase e4x has limited support in browsers

[jQuery] Re: closing tag bug in jQuery 1.2.6?

2008-10-29 Thread chris thatcher
Hey Jay, I remember having some confusion about the span tag at some point. the html specs do significantly limit the types of tags that can be used inside it and browsers will do unexpected things if you try. definitely look at the w3c site to get some more specifics. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at

[jQuery] Re: gzip

2008-10-29 Thread chris thatcher
generally you dont actually gzip the js files, you enable gzip compression on the server and it does it automatically setting the appropriate headers on the http response so that the client knows to un-gzip. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, dmlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gzipped the latest

[jQuery] Re: $.each help for radio button validation

2008-10-22 Thread chris thatcher
It would help to see a specific example, or link to an example. My immediate response would be to make sure you can select each group individually, by wrapping it with a div or something and selecting the div, not all the radio buttons at once. that way you can handle each group one at a time

[jQuery] Re: Proposal: new method for determining variables without value

2008-10-22 Thread chris thatcher
you should cc the jquery-dev list for this idea as well, to ensure those developers see it. thatcher On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:34 PM, pd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All This idea by James Edwards seems like a winner and an ideal candidate for a new jQuery core utility method:

[jQuery] Re: BlockUI Plugin - FadeIn?

2008-10-21 Thread chris thatcher
Shouldn't the effect still block immediately though the opacity is being modified as an animation? On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:22 PM, MorningZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Around line 199 in the js file is where the block layers show... play around with those options and you should be able to get

[jQuery] Re: dot separated id

2008-10-17 Thread chris thatcher
I agree that a spec is a spec. The problem is rigidly adhering to it will break to rest of the specs that work along side the html specs to produce the intended result in the presentation layer. I too had to change the way I assigned id's to accommodate css and js that used css selectors. If

[jQuery] Re: JS Question: How does this jQuery idiom work?

2008-10-15 Thread chris thatcher
It's very important becuase the symbol $ is used by other javascript libraries and it can cause a conflict if you use it outside of the anonymous function. For example another sloppy library might have a global definition var $ = function(){ alert('Not Cool Man!'); }; then if you tried to

[jQuery] Re: blockUI conflicts

2008-10-10 Thread chris thatcher
its part of jquery ui. http://ui.jquery.com/ When you go to the download builder you should only need the dialog component and the effects components (to do the fancy opening magic in the example i posted) On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:59 PM, 700lbGorilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That a separate

[jQuery] Re: blockUI conflicts

2008-10-09 Thread chris thatcher
Im not sure about the specific answer to your question but I can recommend an alternative solution. I use Richard D. Worths oh so excellent $.ui.dialog plugin to achieve a very simple version of the litebox effect. its from the jquery ui team. it goes alittle something like this:

[jQuery] Re: just started using jQuery today

2008-10-08 Thread chris thatcher
Welcome! On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:40 AM, BB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, because it is not in the $(document).ready(function() { ... });, so it would be executed before the dom is ready. so just write the $(a).click(function(){ ... }); in the $ (document).ready(function() { ... });.

[jQuery] Re: Processing.js Google Group Now Formed!

2008-10-07 Thread chris thatcher
, Rey... chris thatcher wrote: Processing.js ( http://github.com/jeresig/processing-js/ ) is written by John Resig and is a port of the Processing language ( http://processing.org ) developed at MIT that uses the Html Canvas ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_(HTML_element)http

[jQuery] Re: Processing.js Google Group Now Formed!

2008-10-04 Thread chris thatcher
I started using processing.js also, I'll definitely join this group! Thatcher On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:16 PM, F1LT3R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Joe, I love using Processing so I am glad you started this group and I will definitely be subscribing. You have a question? I have been digging

[jQuery] Re: Processing.js Google Group Now Formed!

2008-10-04 Thread chris thatcher
, etc, etc. It's a big win for the javascript community and John's skills show clearly in it's simplicity and it's completeness. Thatcher On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Ok...I'll ask...what is Processing.js about? Rick chris thatcher wrote: I started

[jQuery] Re: Is anyone using jQuery + Jaxer?

2008-09-22 Thread chris thatcher
I really think it's just a little ahead of it's time. I dont get too much time to tinker but found myself spending too much time figuring out how to use the IDE they develop instead of just coding with it. If I have a second chance I'll go straight to the server and ignore the development tools.

[jQuery] Re: Washington DC jQuery Meetup - lunch and learn jQuery UI at the Library of Congress

2008-09-16 Thread chris thatcher
Ed Summers... I know him! In fact I like him too! I worked with Ed and the OSI team to create the World Digital Library Prototype (and used jQuery in fact). I have to be in New York for that date but please give OSI my kindest regards and let them know I wish I could join you all. PS I also

[jQuery] getScript + google-maps = page locks up ?

2008-09-11 Thread chris thatcher
Well I lied a little but it's $.ajax ith the datatype set to script: var _this = this; var url = http://maps.google.com/maps;; var data = { file:api, v:2,

[jQuery] Re: New Google Browser announced

2008-09-03 Thread chris thatcher
I hope it's enough for microsoft to retire ie6, but frankly I worry a little bit about the gas giant that google is becoming. I can't see any reason they couldn't simply have given some funding to mozilla and kept providing their services as is, except... to hone their tracking of my browser

[jQuery] Re: Getting a fragment of ajax html and writing to the page

2008-08-20 Thread chris thatcher
I think you just need to supply the context to the query like so: var popupContent = $('#foo', popupData); Thatcher On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can anyone tell me how I can get part of a web page downloaded with $.get()? I thought it

[jQuery] Re: Feedback for new plugin idea: ui.querybuilder

2008-07-18 Thread chris thatcher
Are you familiar with OpenSearch? I bring it up because the OpenSearch has already provided some of the semantics to help generalize the search issue. At some point I had built a client with jquery for opensearch + atom and opensearch-suggest + json, but can't share it because it was part of some

[jQuery] Re: JTemplates site gone ?!

2008-07-18 Thread chris thatcher
Gosh I was just there recently, seems strange indeed. I have a very recent zip of the source if you need it. I also use jtemplates a lot. Hmm... so hopefully it's just that they forget to renew the domain name or failed to pay the bill for hosting. In the worst case I'm willing to try to help

[jQuery] Re: Submitting entire webpage for server-side XSLT parsing

2008-07-17 Thread chris thatcher
Still an interesting question, sorry I didn't reply. Its obviously easy to hold a dom on the server and serialize it all to the client as a continuation of state. It's not so easy on the client as some things may hidden from you by the browsers internal state implement since it's not

[jQuery] Re: NEW: XML to JSON Plugin

2008-07-16 Thread chris thatcher
Thatcher On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:46 AM, chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FORMAT: Yeah I agree the {}/[] issue complex and after going another round with xotree I have to say I really like the 'force_array' map it optionally allows. That said the asArray() solution works and I might

[jQuery] Re: NEW: XML to JSON Plugin

2008-07-16 Thread chris thatcher
complex if we're going to implement this additional functionality and support json to xml conversion, but it would be great if we can find a way to do both Cheers, Diego A. On Jul 16, 3:17 am, chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Diego A. [EMAIL

[jQuery] Re: NEW: XML to JSON Plugin

2008-07-15 Thread chris thatcher
decendants 'c' of data.a }); Or is this not at all what you have in mind? Thatcher Again, thank you for your interest in this project. I look forward to your reply... Cheers, Diego A. On Jul 8, 12:11 am, chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah it would be great to see it ported

[jQuery] Re: NEW: XML to JSON Plugin

2008-07-15 Thread chris thatcher
A. Thatcher 2008/7/15 chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, I'd be glad to work on this with you. Unfortunately, I'm completely tied up with a couple of other projects for the next few days. I won't have a chance

[jQuery] Re: NEW: XML to JSON Plugin

2008-07-07 Thread chris thatcher
Have you looked at xotree.js ? Nice work. On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Alexsandro_xpt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Diego, I mean ( 1 ) I Know, but would be something like that xmlpersonnameDiego/ name/person/xml already great. :) Nice plugin.!! On 5 jul, 00:06, Diego [EMAIL

[jQuery] Re: NEW: XML to JSON Plugin

2008-07-07 Thread chris thatcher
-e.html ...and looking at the examples, it seems to behave exactly like my plugin but it's more flexible with options and built-in ajax support. It's definitelly a good base for future development of my plugin... Cheers, Diego A. On Jul 7, 8:10 pm, chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have

[jQuery] Re: expr in $(, expr) not as expected

2008-07-02 Thread chris thatcher
Hi Rob, It's an easy issue to confuse at first so don't worry. the expr parameter is treated as a top level context and the query you're using, 'div', is actually saying 'find any descendant divs UNDER the top level context'. Now to help you figure out what query might possible to discern one of

[jQuery] Re: Shadowbox 2.0rc1

2008-07-02 Thread chris thatcher
I'm not advocating Shadowbox because I have nothing to do with it's development, but I have been studying it and I think it's probably worth 20 buckaroos if your developing a commercial site (otherwise it's free!) Thatcher On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was

[jQuery] Re: Jquery and using regex in selectors

2008-06-29 Thread chris thatcher
Actually jQuery supports a subset of of regular expression-like filters. Check out: http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors and look at the 'Attribute Filters' This would achieve the case you need with jQuery(input[name*='name']) Thatcher On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Ramanathan RV [EMAIL

[jQuery] Re: jtemplates performance

2008-06-27 Thread chris thatcher
... On Jun 27, 12:03 am, chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are measuring the combined time. Try this: var xmltojson_start = new Date().getTime(); ret = $.xmlToJSON(responseXML); var xmltojson_stop = new Date().getTime(); var template_start = new Date().getTime

[jQuery] Re: jtemplates performance

2008-06-26 Thread chris thatcher
Andiih, just curious becuase I use jtemplates and havent seen that issue, though can you verify that the slow code is not 'xmlToJSON'. I have seen the marshalling process take up a lot of time in IE when the xml is substantial in size . Thatcher On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jack

[jQuery] Re: QUnit, jqUnit, and rhino

2008-06-26 Thread chris thatcher
Wow this is good news. I've been mucking up env.js for awhile now locally and was afraid I wouldn't see it go where I hope it will. John you mentioned the other platforms you want it to be used on and I think this would be ideal. One thing that is currently preventing that is that the basic

[jQuery] Re: jtemplates performance

2008-06-26 Thread chris thatcher
if JavaScriptTemplates looks like I can integrate it, and re- test. TIA Andrew On Jun 26, 6:02 pm, chris thatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andiih, just curious becuase I use jtemplates and havent seen that issue, though can you verify that the slow code is not 'xmlToJSON'. I have seen

[jQuery] Re: Welcome to Ariel Flesler

2008-05-13 Thread chris thatcher
I knew when I saw Ariel's plugins and outside work that he'd be on the team eventually. Congratulations. On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:30 PM, John Resig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone - I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Ariel Flesler to the jQuery Dev Team. He's put a ton of work