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Recently, I wrote my first jQuery Globalization plugin introductory post. I mentioned that I will write a tutorial for Globalization plugin and I am. While writing the tutorial I thought I’ll write one of my short Friday jQuery tips. In this post you will learn how to check if a specific jQuery Globalization plugin language file is loaded or not. Globalization plugin saves localization data and

Recently, I wrote my first jQuery Globalization plugin introductory post. I mentioned that I will write a tutorial for Globalization plugin and I am. While writing the tutorial I thought I’ll write one of my short Friday jQuery tips. In this post you will learn how to check if a specific jQuery Globalization plugin language file is loaded or not. Globalization plugin saves localization data and

This is the first post of a series that are dedicated to jQuery’s new Microsoft contributed Globalization plugin or shortly jquery.glob.js. In this first post I will try to cover the very basics like library licensing, “the good & the bad” and some thoughts on how it could be improved (IMO). I will be post some jQuery globalization plugin tutorials in coming days, so bare with me. Before we

This is the first post of a series that are dedicated to jQuery’s new Microsoft contributed Globalization plugin or shortly jquery.glob.js. In this first post I will try to cover the very basics like library licensing, “the good & the bad” and some thoughts on how it could be improved (IMO). I will be post some jQuery globalization plugin tutorials in coming days, so bare with me. Before we

In this post I would like to share javascript functions that will help you easily get, set, delete and basically manage your cookies. Also, link to jQuery Cookie plugin, it’s improved version with more functions and of course easy to read and short examples on how to use these functions. I will try to keep this post short and will not explain what cookies are and how to eat them. There are

In this post I would like to share javascript functions that will help you easily get, set, delete and basically manage your cookies. Also, link to jQuery Cookie plugin, it’s improved version with more functions and of course easy to read and short examples on how to use these functions. I will try to keep this post short and will not explain what cookies are and how to eat them. There are

Long overdue demo for my jQuery YouTube plugin – jYouTube is now available here. The plugin can fetch and get you any YouTube video’s screenshot or thumbnail by its URL or video id. Here is an example: // Getting video screenshot by YouTube video ID $.jYoutube('rSUfWXcNAOw'); // Returns video thumbnail by YouTube video URL $.jYoutube('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUfWXcNAOw', 'small'); By

Long overdue demo for my jQuery YouTube plugin – jYouTube is now available here. The plugin can fetch and get you any YouTube video’s screenshot or thumbnail by its URL or video id. Here is an example: // Getting video screenshot by YouTube video ID $.jYoutube('rSUfWXcNAOw'); // Returns video thumbnail by YouTube video URL $.jYoutube('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUfWXcNAOw', 'small'); By

A lot of users requested a demo for my jQuery Twitter plugin. It has been a while since I updated the plugin, so I downloaded the latest version and while looking thought the code found couple of bugs. So, here comes updated and fixed jQuery Tweeter plugin - jTwitter 1.1.1. In this release, I fixed a little bug that would not allow you request Tweets without number of posts like this: //

A lot of users requested a demo for my jQuery Twitter plugin. It has been a while since I updated the plugin, so I downloaded the latest version and while looking thought the code found couple of bugs. So, here comes updated and fixed jQuery Tweeter plugin - jTwitter 1.1.1. In this release, I fixed a little bug that would not allow you request Tweets without number of posts like this: //

No doubt that Web2.0 is one of the best things that happened in our lifetime (besides the internet itself). When we mention Web2.0 first things that come into our minds are AJAX, rounded corners, clean and light layouts and of course RSS feeds. Nowadays, you either provide an RSS feed or consume it in your web app using AJAX/JavaScript. The only bad thing is that you can not request cross-site

No doubt that Web2.0 is one of the best things that happened in our lifetime (besides the internet itself). When we mention Web2.0 first things that come into our minds are AJAX, rounded corners, clean and light layouts and of course RSS feeds. Nowadays, you either provide an RSS feed or consume it in your web app using AJAX/JavaScript. The only bad thing is that you can not request cross-site

Most of the time custom jQuery plugins and extensions that we create do not use a callback functions. They usually simply work on DOM elements or do some calculations. But there are cases when we need to define our own custom callback functions for our plugins. And this is especially true when our plugins utilize AJAX querying. Let’s say our custom jQuery extension gets data by making some

Most of the time custom jQuery plugins and extensions that we create do not use a callback functions. They usually simply work on DOM elements or do some calculations. But there are cases when we need to define our own custom callback functions for our plugins. And this is especially true when our plugins utilize AJAX querying. Let’s say our custom jQuery extension gets data by making some

Some time ago I created jQuery Twitter plugin – jTwitter. Plugin lets you get data about any Twitter user, such as user’s bio, profile image, homepage URL, background image URL, following count, followers count, messages count, etc. without any Twitter API key. It is very useful to attach additional Twitter data to your site’s user profiles, etc. However, it was not very handy for creating your

Some time ago I created jQuery Twitter plugin – jTwitter. Plugin lets you get data about any Twitter user, such as user’s bio, profile image, homepage URL, background image URL, following count, followers count, messages count, etc. without any Twitter API key. It is very useful to attach additional Twitter data to your site’s user profiles, etc. However, it was not very handy for creating your

I recently came across a 2 dimensional barcode called QR Code. QR code’s are popular in Japan and they are mainly used there to quickly get to some website on their mobiles by simply taking a picture of the QR code. You may read more about QR codes on Wikipedia. Here is an example of QR code for jQuery HowTo blog: If you have a QR code reader on your mobile take a picture of it and it will

I recently came across a 2 dimensional barcode called QR Code. QR code’s are popular in Japan and they are mainly used there to quickly get to some website on their mobiles by simply taking a picture of the QR code. You may read more about QR codes on Wikipedia. Here is an example of QR code for jQuery HowTo blog: If you have a QR code reader on your mobile take a picture of it and it will

Selecting all external links and amending them in some way is probably one of the most used jQuery tutorials. By selecting all anchor links on the page and for example adding a CSS class with only one jQuery line shows how jQuery is simple and powerful. Also if you are progressively enhancing your website this is one of the trick you might use. Actually, I had to select all external links and

Selecting all external links and amending them in some way is probably one of the most used jQuery tutorials. By selecting all anchor links on the page and for example adding a CSS class with only one jQuery line shows how jQuery is simple and powerful. Also if you are progressively enhancing your website this is one of the trick you might use. Actually, I had to select all external links and