21 September, 2008 11:02 am

Charts and Graphs Plotting with JQuery plugins

Posted by Richard Wong under Javascript, JQuery | 10 Comments

Charts are important in visualising data to give a more profound understanding of the nature of given problem. A good charting solution for should render charts dynamically from raw data and allow multiple type of data presentation.

Traditionally we generate charts on the server-side but that means it will take up more bandwidth by the image all the way across the internet. Ideally we would just send the data to the browser and it will render the chart. With the advance in javascript and browser support, we have many powerful chart components out there based on Javascript. Now with the help of javascript frameworks, we can create charts in just a few lines of code.

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15 June, 2008 11:42 pm

Simple JQuery Feed Plugin using Google AJAX Feed API

Posted by Richard Wong under Javascript, JQuery | 2 Comments

Many of you may have already heard about the . It allows you to download any RSS or Atom feed using only Javascript. So we can easily start integrating different feeds or building mashups on our sites with just Javascript.

Although Google have added a to add feed to any website without writing any code, some of you might still want to a flexible and clean method to integrate Feeds. M. Alsup at Malsup.com has created a simple and unobtrusive jQuery plugin using the Google AJAX Feed API. It is a very simple and straightforward plugin that makes integrating feeds to jQuery sites even easier.

You can download and see a demo here

5 June, 2008 11:22 pm

What’s Next in jQuery and JavaScript?

Posted by Richard Wong under Javascript, JQuery | 1 Comment

A short video by the father of jQuery about what is coming.


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4 June, 2008 1:46 am

Examples of Popular Sites using JQuery

Posted by Richard Wong under Javascript, JQuery | 8 Comments

JQuery is famous for making Javascript easy to write with minimal code and is definitely on the rise. So I did a little research to find some example of big sites that adopted jQuery.

Here is what I found:

Social Sites

Main Stream Media Site

Other popular sites

Although this is only a small list but one thing is certain – jQuery works on big sites and big sites are starting to adopt it.

2 June, 2008 12:02 am

JQuery modal dialog Boxes

Posted by Richard Wong under Javascript, JQuery | 18 Comments

When we come to design modern web applications, modal dialog boxes are often required to quickly interact with users without reloading the whole page. So here are 3 JQuery based modal boxes for those of you who are using JQuery as the main Javascript Library.

1. Facebox

This is definitely simple to use, small in size and stylish in design.

2. SimpleModal

Another simple and small Modal Box.

3. ThickBox

Probably the more old school of three but ThickBox definitely does the job well. It has been around for quite sometime now and even the new WordPress Back-end uses it!