Combine JSONP and jQuery to Quickly Build Powerful Mashups

With the number of publicly offered Web service APIs, it's now much easier to get content from different Web sources and to build mashups—if you have access to the right APIs and tools. Discover how you can combine an obscure cross-domain call technique (JSONP) and a flexible JavaScript library (jQuery) to build powerful mashups surprisingly quickly.

Özses, Seda and Salih Ergül. IBM (2009). Articles>Web Design>Content Management>JavaScript

Building Mashups with JSONP, jQuery, and Yahoo! Query Language

In the previous article of this series, we introduced JSONP (JSON with Padding) as a way to overcome browser same-origin policy limitations while combining and presenting data from third-party sources. This article continues this process and shows you how to use Yahoo! Query Language (YQL), a JSONP service from Yahoo!, to build a mashup Web page using jQuery.

Özses, Seda and Salih Ergül. IBM (2009). Articles>Web Design>E Commerce>JavaScript

Siete Impresionantes Sistemas de Navegación en jQuery

Ayer os presentaba dos excelentes galerías de proyectos desarrollados en jQuery. Hoy, para no ser menos, vamos a seguir hablando de jQuery. Lo que ahora os presento es una recopilación de 7 sistemas de navegación que nos os dejarán indiferentes.

Costales, David. davidcostales.com (2009). (Spanish) Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>JavaScript

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet is logically organized into DOM methods, functions, regular expressions, etc. It’s easy to use and a great reference for all common JavaScript uses. The guide is not only excellent for JavaScript beginners (covering items as basic as the syntax for putting JavaScript into HTML) but is also suited to programmers at an advanced level (referring to more advanced JavaScript functionality).

Added Bytes (2007). Resources>Web Design>Programming>JavaScript

The Yahoo! User Interface Library

The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. YUI is available under a BSD license and is free for all uses.

Yahoo. Resources>Web Design>User Interface>JavaScript

Inline Validation in Web Forms

Inline validation gives people several types of real-time feedback: It can confirm an appropriate answer, suggest valid answers, and provide regular updates to help people stay within necessary limits. These bits of feedback can be presented before, during and / or after users provide answers.

Wroblewski, Luke. List Apart, A (2009). Articles>Web Design>Forms>JavaScript

JavaScript MVC

While MVC is a familiar term to those in back-end application development—using frameworks such as Struts, Ruby on Rails, and CakePHP—MVC’s origin in user interface development lends itself to structuring client-side applications. Let’s examine what MVC is, see how we can use it to rework an example project, and consider some existing MVC frameworks.

Snook, Jonathan. List Apart, A (2009). Articles>Web Design>Programming>JavaScript

Using JavaScript to Style Active Navigation Elements

I’m all about efficiency when I’m writing web code. Any time I find myself writing the same functionality more than once or twice, I try to consider whether my repeated code could be wrapped into a function of some sort. Navigation is often one of those areas where I try to improve my efficiency.

Glazebrook, Rob L. CSS Newbie (2009). Articles>Web Design>CSS>JavaScript

Reading XML with jQuery 

How to use the common jQuery JavaScript library to parse XML data sources, and to integrate them into your pages.

Harbour, Jared. Think2Loud (2008). Articles>Web Design>XML>JavaScript