JQuery is a great little Javascript library which simplifies lots of Javascript.
So this weekend, I decided it'd be nice to have some AJAX based updates on some pages I'm doing for work. As a developer what does this mean? Well from what I've seen before, a lot of effort.
There's a lot of wheel re-inventing going on out there, so it's nice to see a library like this bringing a lot of base functionality together. The only failing I have seen with JQuery is the documentation, which (from my quick perusal) was a little bit lacking in places IMHO.
In addition to being a nice lightweight little library, it's built to completely remove the onClick(), onFocus() attributes from the HTML, which again pushes forth the whole "keep logic and design separate" paradigm which only relatively recently seems to be making it's way into mainstream web development. Other programming languages and frameworks have been pushing this for years.
Anyways, I'm making some nice and simple pages available to try and help some new people get introduced to it.
First of all, here are the files we're dealing with. These work on the server, so you can test them out:
Tutorial 1 - HTML
Tutorial 1 - PHP source
I'll edit this page with more as I get the time to update them.