October 29, 2007
UPDATE: (Oct. 26th, 2009): I’ve just released a new version of Coda-Slider. Check out the details here. The original version referred to in this post remains available for download.
It’s been about six weeks since I introduced a neat little jQuery plugin called Coda-Slider. It was well received, and I was delighted to see people incorporating it into their own projects in creative ways.
However, the original Coda-Slider had some bugs and lacked some features. After numerous requests, I’ve finally found time to make some improvements, and today I’m releasing Coda-Slider 1.1. Please check out the demo, and be sure to read the rest of this post for more info and details on customization.
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October 25, 2007
This is a guest post from Don Albrecht of AjaxBestiary.com. Be sure to visit his sites and check out his other works.
While most of the new features in the jQuery UI package are common across most AJAX frameworks and toolkits, the new Selectables stands out as a unique and potentially quite useful interface element.
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September 25, 2007
Just noticed something quirky today regarding jQuery’s slideToggle effect in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. (I’m guessing the use of jQuery’s slideDown and slideUp will give you the same problem.) I’ve been creating some nice sliding div effects these past couple of weeks in work and wondering why the slide animation in IE6+ was so jagged and clunky, while Firefox and Safari rendered it perfectly. Through the process of elimination and some hair loss, I figured it out.
The fix
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September 24, 2007
Just added a couple of projects to my portfolio.
First is my most recent freelance project, which was a site for the Mercy primary schools in Waterford. Secondly, there’s the Flash animation I created while at TSSG back in March.
September 15, 2007
UPDATE: (Oct. 26th, 2009): I’ve just released a new version of Coda-Slider. Check out the details here. The original version referred to in this post remains available for download.
These last couple of weeks in work I’ve been getting to grips with the jQuery JavaScript library to provide some cool effects on an interface I’ve been building. One effect I hoped to create was a tabbed sliding div type thing, like Panic have on their Coda site. I couldn’t find anything quite like that ready-made with jQuery, so I went about doing it myself. Using Gian Carlo Mingati’s excellent slideViewer as a starting point, I was able to achieve the desired effect. At the risk of getting sued, I’ve called it Coda-Slider.
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