jQuery Roundup: Screencasts, $.data() Tutorial, Rails Switching to jQuery

15 Mar 2011 | By Alex Young | Tags jquery plugins screencasts

More jQuery Screencasts

I’ve previously mentioned Josh Timonen’s awesome screencasts, and he sent us two more jQuery-focused tutorials:

Linking JavaScript Objects to HTML Elements

In Linking JavaScript Objects to HTML Elements, Tait Brown discusses using the $.data() function to maintain relationships between markup and server-side data. It’s written from a designer’s perspective, which was interesting to me (as a predominantly server-side developer).

Rails 3.1 Shipping with jQuery

David Heinemeier Hansson announced that Rails 3.1 is moving to jQuery as the built-in JavaScript library. Rails had previously bundled Prototype and had tight integration with script.aculo.us.


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