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Event Delegation with jQuery 4 Mar 2010 | 01:06 pm
jQuery makes implementing event delegation quick and easy! In version 1.4.2 there are now three ways to utilize event delegation: .live(), .delegate(), and do-it-yourself. Each technique progressively...
Special Events: The Changes in 1.4.2 25 Feb 2010 | 05:55 pm
jQuery’s event system has seen incredible feature growth over the years and with that growth came some pains. jQuery 1.4.2 included a much needed overhaul of the event system. This also brought some b...
Connecting the Dots with Web Workers 18 Feb 2010 | 09:16 pm
A little while back I sat down to experiment with Web Workers and decided I would write a zero-sum game. I choose Connect 4 as the game I’d use to explore Web Workers with. It helped that I found an a...
Understanding the Context in jQuery 25 Jun 2009 | 07:20 am
When selecting elements jQuery has an optional second argument called context. This context provides a means to limit the search within a specific node. This is great when you have a very large DOM tr...
Automating with Special Events 18 Jun 2009 | 03:44 am
David Walsh had a great idea to coerce an element that is given a click event to have a pointer for its cursor. The pointer is a universal symbol for users to know that something is clickable. Using t...
jQuery Edge: New Special Event Hooks 4 Jun 2009 | 01:05 pm
These Special Event hooks were changed in 1.4.2. Check out this blog post to see the details about the change. In jQuery 1.3.3 1.4 there are two new special event hooks: add and remove. These two hoo...
jQuery Edge: Simplified .hover() 29 May 2009 | 04:56 am
In jQuery 1.3.3 1.4 the .hover() method will optionally accept a single method instead of always requiring two methods. This allows you to contain your logic within one method instead of duplicating i...
jQuery Edge: Better Support for other Windows and Documents 14 May 2009 | 11:22 pm
jQuery in the past hasn’t always played well with other windows and documents than the one it was loaded in. However, jQuery is moving in the right direction to help ease the pain of cross window/fram...
jQuery Edge: Bind with a Different "this" 12 May 2009 | 10:50 pm
Brand new to jQuery SVN is the oft-requested feature of providing a different value for the “this” object in an event callback. Previously jQuery would always send the element as the value of “this” i...
jQuery Edge: Live Events now with Data 8 May 2009 | 10:22 pm
In jQuery 1.3.3 1.4 the .live() method will have the ability to pass data along just like you might do with .bind(). The .bind() (and now .live()) method takes an optional second argument called “data...
