jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Miscellaneous
In this, the last post in my series on jQuery, I mention an odd lot of interesting things about jQuery that are worth knowing. Some involve specific code; others aid understanding of jQuery’s philosophy. You may or may not want to also read these earlier posts on jQuery:
- Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page
- Selecting page elements
- Adding event handlers
- Applying effects
- Manipulating elements
- Ajax
- Plug-ins
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A Primer on jQuery Plug-Ins
In this, Part 7 of my (consistently delayed) series on the jQuery JavaScript framework, I talk about plug-ins you can use to expand jQuery’s features. You may want to read some of the previous six parts before getting into this one:
- Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page
- Selecting page elements
- Adding event handlers
- Applying effects
- Manipulating elements
- Ajax
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Using an Encrypted Local Database in Adobe AIR
An article I wrote for Peachpit Press titled Using an Encrypted Local Database in Adobe AIR was just published at Peachpit’s Web site. In this article I discuss and demonstrate a feature added to Adobe AIR in version 1.5. This addition allows you to securely store data in a database on the client’s computer (previous versions of AIR supported both databases and encrypted local storage, but not encrypted local databases).