Yehuda Katz

Recent Blog Comments By Yehuda Katz

• jQuery In Action By Bear Bibeault And Yehuda Katz

  Posted on Oct 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM

  Hi Ben, Thanks for posting about the book, and glad you enjoyed. Sorry about the confusion with the MEAP program - we'll be releasing the remaining chapters really soon!... read more »

• You Really Shouldn't Be Here jQuery, My Wife Might Begin To Suspect Something

  Posted on Feb 7, 2007 at 5:26 PM

  Steve said: "... However, while looking through the (fairly recently released) Mootools 1.0 code a few minutes ago, I noticed there's a new "Elements" Class which makes a bunch of methods available for arrays returned by DOM queries. Hence, here are two additional ways the sample code could be rewr... read more »

• You Really Shouldn't Be Here jQuery, My Wife Might Begin To Suspect Something

  Posted on Feb 6, 2007 at 4:01 PM

  @Ben: I would definitely read through some of the sections of the API (you can get a good look at it at visualjquery.com) top to bottom. Most important, imho: Core (of course), especially gt, lt for traversing DOM Attributes->attr, text, html, and val DOM Manipulation top-to-bottom DOM Traver... read more »

• You Really Shouldn't Be Here jQuery, My Wife Might Begin To Suspect Something

  Posted on Feb 6, 2007 at 1:22 PM

  Just FYI: You could have used siblings() instead of parentNode and children. $( objSource.parentNode ).children( ".on" ).attr( "class", "off" ); would become $( objSource ).siblings(".on").attr( "class", "off" ); Depending on what you're doing, you might have done: $( objSource ).siblings().tog... read more »

• You Really Shouldn't Be Here jQuery, My Wife Might Begin To Suspect Something

  Posted on Feb 6, 2007 at 11:16 AM

  I'm really glad to see that you've tried out jQuery. The way I see it, JavaScript libraries are roughly the equivalent of the C StdLib, or libraries for Perl or Ruby. Sure, you could code everything by hand, but why? Especially with JavaScript, where coding by hand frequently entails spending hour... read more »