jQuery 1.1a

January 8, 2007

jQuery 1.1 is close around the corner. One of the things I really like is the cleanup of the API and the performance increase in selections. Nicely done!
I recently switched from prototype+scriptaculous over to jQuery. I like them both very much, it’s just that I think jQuery will be more suitable for me.
Read all about it over at the jQuery blog


LinkTip: Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique

December 20, 2006

http://www.alistapart.com/d/switchymclayout/transition_layout_tab.html

Watch how the layout completely changes when you resize your window. Very nice effect, but perhaps not as useful as one would think. It works by hooking into onresize and applying different styles depending on the size of the browser window.

Read the full article over at A List Apart


Deleting things

December 18, 2006

Well, I didn’t know about this, so here goes.
It’s possible to delete object, properties of objects or places in arrays with delete.

delete objectName
delete objectName.property
delete objectName[index]

Read more about this, and other useful special operators over at the Mozilla developer center