How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations
In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.
However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.
Top Worthwhile Tutorials of the Week – #2
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Why Do We Love These 5 Fresh and Awesome jQuery Plugins?
We – You and Us, always love everything is fresh and useful design stuff especially plugins for jQuery. We – AEXT.NET, love to provide new fresh and useful jQuery plugins for our readers. This entry is in jQuery Plugins series that our visitors love very much. Enjoy the post of 5 fresh and awesome jQuery plugins, then you will find out why we love them by their cool features.
Learning jQuery: Horizontal Panel Sliding With animate() function
This post is of the Learning jQuery series. Today, we will learn to use the animate() function to slide the panel to the left. It’s useful for display your options for search page. By a trick, we will make the animation more simple.
CodeIgniter and jQuery – Real Live Search with Pagination
In this tutorial, we will create a search page with CodeIgniter and jQuery. We’re not gonna create only a default search page using CodeIgniter framework, but also a real time search with jQuery’s support. And one more, enable GET method in CodeIginter that was stupidly disable by default. Enjoy the tut and don’t forget the … beer! Continue Reading
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