specializing in digital media technologies

I StumbledUpon a notable Ajax resource recently, called Ajaxload. This site provides tools for generating an animated GIF that can be used on your site to indicate that something is loading or happening or whatever. Choose a style you like, the background color, the foreground color, and the transparency of the background, then click “Generate it!” and you have a nice, custom graphic. The site’s in beta now and is free; I’m not sure if it’ll remain so or not (hopefully it will).

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:

1. Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page
2. Selecting page elements
3. Adding event handlers
4. Applying effects
5. Manipulating elements
6. Ajax
7. Plug-ins

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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:

1. Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page
2. Selecting page elements
3. Adding event handlers
4. Applying effects
5. Manipulating elements
6. Ajax

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