in TPR5 - jQuery #heweb08
latest #15
i hear it's packed in there
people on the floor.. it's packed.
speaker is Jaclyn Whitehorn, Customer Relations Office of Information Tech., U of Alabama
jQuery = open source js library, no licensing problems using it. Include it on your pages, and do things with it
Jaclyn recommends learning html+css, and using that knowledge to leverage jquery, instead of becoming a js guru
get used to using parenthesis and curly braces, and keep count
giving an introduction to the accordion function for navigation and faqs
lightbox plugins for link - Question from audience RE: accessibility. Degrades beautifully for accessibility
tabs ajax example... very nifty way to dynamically add tabbed ajax content with just a <ul> and<li><a> with hrefs to the content.
it was a very nice introduction, personally I hate using the $, I would prefer they use jQuery.noConflict()
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