Learning jQuery: A reference guide and examples for the rest of us

Introduction
As a longtime jQuery user I was excited to take some time to read and review two new jQuery books.
Packt Publishing provided me free copies of Learning jQuery and the jQuery Reference Guide.
I spent most of October reading through them and making the most of my first book review experience.
In short, these [...]

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jQuery: New version and UI package

Posted by sdkester under Featured, Scripts, Web Tools

John Resig, the creator of jQuery has been going non stop. jQuery 1.2 was released on 10 September to much fanfare by those who follow it, followed by an update to 1.2.1 for bugs and a missing feature.

They didn’t stop there though. Immediately afterwards, jQuery UI was released. jQuery UI is a package of [...]

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File uploads with Ajax

I get asked a lot, especially on the Web Connect forum and jQuery mailing list, about Ajax (not AJAX, thank you) file uploads.

The XHR object in javascript cannot access file uploads, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your users an Ajax-like experience. Here are some options and their corresponding back end languages.

gMail-esque [...]

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