jQuery Roundup: jQuery BBQ, blockUI
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jQuery Community Updates for December
Addy Osmani has posted the jQuery Community Updates for December to the jQuery blog. There are details on preparations for jQuery 1.5, which features a major overhaul of the jQuery.ajax code and API.
jQuery BBQ
jQuery BBQ (MIT and GPL licenses) by Ben Alman helps manage bookmarkable #hash history. There’s a “project page”, unit tests, and lots of examples.
This plugin can cope with multiple history states per page, as demonstrated in the advanced example.
jQuery History Plugin
jQuery History Plugin by Mikage Sawatari and Takayuki Miwa is another hashchange event-based history plugin. The API is slightly different to jQuery BBQ, using the $.history.init() and $.history.load() methods to work with history.
blockUI
blockUI (GitHub: malsup / blockui) by Mike Alsup allows you to block interactions with a page until asynchronous events have completed. It fades the page and shows a message, but it also sets the mouse cursor to a suitable busy icon.
This example makes a nice rounded-corner style display:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#demo2').click(function() {
$.blockUI({ css: {
border: 'none',
padding: '15px',
backgroundColor: '#000',
'-webkit-border-radius': '10px',
'-moz-border-radius': '10px',
opacity: .5,
color: '#fff'
} });
setTimeout($.unblockUI, 2000);
});
});
