Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by urnulman » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 10:12 AM UTC

Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners
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Re: Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by rmoreno » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 10:38 AM UTC

Please do not detect the browser! Detect the feature! Feature detection is preferred by many to browser sniffing to support future browsers: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.ht... http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/feature-detection-state-of-... https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Browser_Feature_Detection

Re: Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by pierrefar » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 10:40 AM UTC

Please do not disable the context menu. Seriously annoying.

Re: Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by pistoriusp » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 10:51 AM UTC

We seem to be getting a lot of low quality css, javascript and htaccess tips lately. (Which make it pretty high in the voting list.)

The content just seems to be compiled from other sources: http://www.opensourcehunter.com/2010/02/27/26-cool-and-usefu... (Which, to be fair the author links too... I'm just not sure why the submitter doesn't link to the original source.)

Re: Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by godDLL » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 10:54 AM UTC

pistoriusp wrote: post #4

We seem to be getting a lot of low quality css, javascript and htaccess tips lately. (Which make it pretty high in the voting list.) The content just seems to be compiled from other sources: http://www.opensourcehunter.com/2010/02/27/26-cool-and-usefu... (Which, to be fair the author links too... I'm just not sure why the submitter doesn't link to the original source.)

It's the OP. He made three in the last couple of days, two of them went dead, and I'd like this one to follow.

Where's my three strikes rule?

Re: Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by lovskogen » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 11:26 AM UTC

Top? When did this become Digg?

Re: Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by robin_reala » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 11:27 AM UTC

Disable right-click Horrible, horrible, horrible. Also, easy to bypass.

Disappearing search field text Fair enough, but worth remembering about the HTML5 placeholder attribute.

Opening links in a new window If it’s not valid in your code then it’s not valid if you insert it dynamically. Just suck it up if you need this.

Detect browser Really? :(

Preloading images Guess this could be useful.

CSS Styleswitcher HTML has a built in syntax for this: rel="alternate stylesheet"

Columns of equal height Can be useful, but nasty implementation (global variables a-go-go for a start). You can usually do this with background images in CSS anyway.

Font resizing Replicates more default browser functionality.

Get the mouse cursor x and y axis OK.

Verify if an Element is empty Huh? Why would you even want this?

Re: Top JQuery Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Post by andyn » Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 11:31 AM UTC

pistoriusp wrote: post #4

We seem to be getting a lot of low quality css, javascript and htaccess tips lately. (Which make it pretty high in the voting list.) The content just seems to be compiled from other sources: http://www.opensourcehunter.com/2010/02/27/26-cool-and-usefu... (Which, to be fair the author links too... I'm just not sure why the submitter doesn't link to the original source.)

There's this horrible trend whereby people grab 10 or so things, collect them together under the title "Top N something somethings", slap some ads on to make cash and submit it to websites.

I don't know why people vote this rubbish up.