Ca-Phun Ung
Co-Founder at Tofugear and Father-of-three!
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First steps to using jQuery with CoffeeScript
A colleague recently asked me how you typically write the jQuery DomReady and closure syntaxes with CoffeeScript. It’s actually quite simple but did require a bit of fiddling around to find the right recipe. So I thought I’d share this with you all just in case you’re wondering too! DomReady: CoffeeScript jQuery ($) -> # [...]
HTML5 Placeholders
HTML5 adds a new attribute to most form elements called a placeholder. Its purpose is to add a short hint inside data entry points that disappear on focus. This type of interaction isn’t new but is new to HTML as of version 5. For this reason not all browsers have implemented this feature. Try it [...]
jQuery: Textarea maxlength
Being able to restrict the maximum length of user input from the interface directly is very convenient and practical in use. We do this a lot with input elements. Unfortunately textarea elements do not natively support the maxlength attribute. This attribute was finally added in HTML5 but at the time of writing Chrome is the [...]
Labs: UI inlineEdit
After my last tutorial on building a simple inlineEdit plugin I converted the concepts into a UI widget. It’s now sitting in labs for you to use, pick apart and devour: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/branches/labs/inlineedit/demo.html If you inspect the source code you will notice the structure is quite different. It’s actually pretty much the same functionality wise but [...]
jQuery Inline Edit tutorial
A friend recently asked me to review his edit-in-place code which turned out to be a modification of the one found at http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Edit_in_Place_with_Ajax. Reading the tutorial on that page I asked myself how I would do this differently? Defining a global setClickable() function and then calling $(‘#editInPlace”).click() is totally uncool, essentially limiting yourself to one [...]
jQuery UI Spinner update
Sorry for no news these past few months. It’s been very hectic since the new family addition back in Dec which I managed to keep low key. I feel so guilty now for neglecting this blog and my readers (don’t think I have any regulars anyway so I guess nothing missed!), but hey priorities are [...]
jQuery UI 1.7 released
Today marks the release of jQuery UI 1.6 1.7. Kudos to UI team members who’ve done a fantastic job! I’m pretty excited not only because I’m now part of this fantastic team but also with where UI is headed and how it has progressed thus far. UI is still pretty young compared to other UI [...]
jQuery: how to tell if you’re scroll to bottom?
This is a question a jQuery user asked recently. It’s a simple question without a simple answer. There is no inverse equivalent to scrollTop=0 (i.e. scrollBottom=0) so the solution requires some thought. The scenario is this — we have a fixed height div with overflow:auto and we want to use JavaScript to programmatically scroll to [...]
Microsoft to adopt jQuery
Some exciting news just came out — Microsoft plans to adopt jQuery making it part of their official development platform. So it will be shipped with Visual Studio and have all that intellisense goodness. I’m pretty excited about this news. Though I no longer use Microsoft development products it is a testiment to the world [...]