jQuery - 'citing, ain't it.
The past few days, I've had to take the time to learn a bit of jQuery. For those who don't know what jQuery is, it's basically a lightweight set of javascripts with which you can do funky things on webpages. Very much like scriptaculous. The main jQuery site is at jquery.com where you can read much more.
Why learn it?
Wordpress are dropping scriptaculous and implementing jQuery. So, I wanted to learn a bit of jQuery in order to update some of my more "funky" webpages and scripts.
I found jQuery very, very difficult to get my head around, but it soon clicked. And when it did, I can see that it's very powerful! What was taking me a lot of scriptaculous code is now 3 lines of jQuery!
It's pretty darn good, but I am on the lookout for any Tutorials, Documents or downloads that you might have seen on your travels. I found a really good tutorial blog at learningjquery.com.
If you know any more good, easy to follow tutorials, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!
Oh, and if anyone didn't get the "Sylar" reference, see here. Sylar dissects to learn more - I need to get my head around as much jQuery as possible and start dissecting the code…
Comment by James — November 20, 2007 @ 10:04 pm
I would not have gotten your Heroes reference without you pointing it out. Good analogy though.
Comment by Forrest — November 28, 2007 @ 10:39 pm
I've seen a lot about jQuery, and it looks pretty neat. I didn't know WordPress will be implementing it, though … that means I really out to learn the framework sooner than later. Thanks for the heads up - there can be so much to keep aware of, that a person can miss something really important while bogged down in other details…