RE: [WSG] JS patterns

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Taylor
From: Foskett, Mike
Subject: RE: [WSG] JS patterns
 Solution:
 Instead of adding an onclick to a heading, try adding a
 link to the heading then put the onclick on that.
 Use the id of the hidden div as the link href and you're
 done.
 Best practice observed and everyone's happy.

I agree entirely. There seems to be many developers discovering the joys of 
these JavaScript frameworks, but forgetting that we have a responsibility to 
use them wisely. With great power comes great responsibility, or something.

I put together a little script to act as a bridge between HTML and the 
prototype JavaScript library called Performer [1]. It allows you to use 
JavaScript effects (hide and show elements, do AJAX calls, limit textbox input 
length etc) with nothing more than CSS classes and standard element attributes 
(rel and rev, mainly). It's also meant to be keyboard-accessible, but more work 
is needed to get that perfect (any help will be greatly appreciated).

Despite this being quite an early version (currently 0.4 - please report any 
bugs!) I'm also trying to get a jQuery and mootools version developed. If this 
helps developers to use JavaScript in an accessible way then some good will 
come of it.

Chris

[1] http://performerjs.org


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Re: [WSG] JS patterns

2008-12-08 Thread tee


On Dec 7, 2008, at 5:55 AM, Tatham Oddie wrote:


Hi Tee,

There are no JQuery specific extensions to IE8.

There are general speed and reliability improvements to the JS  
engine in the
browser, and IDE support for JQuery in Visual Studio, however the  
support is

not specific to IE+JQuery.



I use Accordion, tab and galleria on a site, it loads very slow on IE,  
especially that never going to die IE6. I was suspecting maybe it was  
Dead Edwards' /IE7 causing the problem, but it still load very slow  
after removing the IE7.js.


tee




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[WSG] JS patterns

2008-12-07 Thread Jason Grant
A quick note to the group to say that a great, lightweight, JQuery based,
continuously updated, object-oriented, highly reusable set of patterns is
being developed by Adam Silver, a great JS developer.
http://www.adoromedia.com/projects/

Patterns are constantly being improved and Adam would appreciate feedback
from people and comments on how to improve them even more. Needless to say
that I am using and re-using these patterns and can highly recommend them.

Regards,

-- 
Jason Grant BSc, MSc
CEO, Flexewebs Ltd.
www.flexewebs.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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www.twitter.com/flexewebs
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Re: [WSG] JS patterns

2008-12-07 Thread tee


On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Jason Grant wrote:

A quick note to the group to say that a great, lightweight, JQuery  
based, continuously updated, object-oriented, highly reusable set of  
patterns is being developed by Adam Silver, a great JS developer.


http://www.adoromedia.com/projects/

Patterns are constantly being improved and Adam would appreciate  
feedback from people and comments on how to improve them even more.  
Needless to say that I am using and re-using these patterns and can  
highly recommend them.





Hi Jason, thanks for the link, and I am a jQuery fan :-)

Something not related to your post but jQuery. As many of you likely  
have known that Microsoft have adapted jQuery framework, and this  
question has been in  my head for a while: does this meant future IE  
(starts from IE8?) will speed up load time for site that uses jQuery?


tee


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Re: [WSG] JS patterns

2008-12-07 Thread Jason Grant
My take on JQuery is that it is:

   - Most popular JS library out there
   - Becoming a de-facto standard for cross-browser JS development
   - Something that every serious developer I have met so far is supporting
   and using

Whether it is made part of future browsers or not, it is a skill set well
worth taking up and a library well worth utilising.

Regards,

Jason

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Tee,

 There are no JQuery specific extensions to IE8.

 There are general speed and reliability improvements to the JS engine in
 the
 browser, and IDE support for JQuery in Visual Studio, however the support
 is
 not specific to IE+JQuery.


 Thanks,

 Tatham Oddie
 call:+61414275989, call:+61280113982, skype:tathamoddie,
 msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], tatham.oddie.com.au

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 On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Jason Grant wrote:

  A quick note to the group to say that a great, lightweight, JQuery
  based, continuously updated, object-oriented, highly reusable set of
  patterns is being developed by Adam Silver, a great JS developer.
 
  http://www.adoromedia.com/projects/
 
  Patterns are constantly being improved and Adam would appreciate
  feedback from people and comments on how to improve them even more.
  Needless to say that I am using and re-using these patterns and can
  highly recommend them.
 
 

 Hi Jason, thanks for the link, and I am a jQuery fan :-)

 Something not related to your post but jQuery. As many of you likely
 have known that Microsoft have adapted jQuery framework, and this
 question has been in  my head for a while: does this meant future IE
 (starts from IE8?) will speed up load time for site that uses jQuery?

 tee


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Jason Grant BSc, MSc
CEO, Flexewebs Ltd.
www.flexewebs.com
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+44 (0)7748 591 770
Company no.: 5587469

www.twitter.com/flexewebs
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