Simon Willison’s Weblog

Background Iframe (bgiframe). jQuery plugin that inserts an iframe shim behind an element in IE, allowing the element to be positioned overlapping a select box without the select box showing through.

# 9th August 2007, 2:54 pm / jquery, internet-explorer, javascript, ie, select, brandon-aaron, iframes, plugins

jQuery in 15 minutes. A quick introduction I put together. Much more interesting in conjunction with Firebug powered demos.

# 7th August 2007, 2:57 pm / jquery, javascript, torchbox, firebug

jQuery Taconite Plugin. Lets you serialize jQuery DOM manipulation commands as an XML document for retrieval via Ajax.

# 2nd July 2007, 6:29 pm / ajax, jquery, taconite, javascript, plugins

jQuery plugin: Validation. Pretty clever way of attacking the client-side form validation problem; supports both configuration object literals and custom attributes on the form fields themselves.

# 30th June 2007, 10:26 pm / validation, javascript, jquery, plugins

The website to web application gradient. Jeremy snapped this cunning illustration at my JavaScript Libraries panel at the Web 2.0 Expo.

# 20th April 2007, 12:30 am / web2expo, web2expo07, jeremy-keith, dojo, yui, gwt, jquery, john-resig, alex-russell, bret-taylor, matt-sweeney, javascript, flickr

Ext JS. Jack Slocum is building a business around his excellent Ext JavaScript library (which can now run on top of YUI, jQuery or Prototype). The library itself is LGPL, but you can pay for a commercial license and support.

# 3rd April 2007, 10:11 pm / jack-slocum, javascript, yui, yuiext, jquery, prototype

DED|Chain JavaScript Library (via) Dustin’s new JavaScript library, which puts a JQuery style chained API on top of YUI.

# 20th March 2007, 10:36 am / jquery, yui, dustin-diaz, dedchain, javascript

Microformats Bookmarklet. Microformats bookmarklet, targetted at Safari. Uses jQuery CSS selectors for parsing, and generates .vcf vCard files using data: uris.

# 27th February 2007, 11:43 pm / microformats, bookmarklets, safari, jquery, vcard, datauris

John Resig: Thoughts on OpenAjax. I hadn’t looked in to OpenAjax—from John’s analysis it seems like they need to make it easier for open-source projects to participate and do a bunch of work to modernise their core library.

# 22nd February 2007, 10:20 pm / openajax, ajax, javascript, john-resig, jquery

jQuery 1.1. jQuery is one year old. The latest release features API improvements and some significant optimisations.

# 15th January 2007, 5:13 pm / jquery, javascript