[development] Javascript API introduction

[Victor Kane]

There was an excellent Drupal Dojo lesson (twice, because the
screencast got lost the first time) on jQuery, with running examples
for ajax callbacks, etc.

Here are the links:

General (including bittorrent to download screencast):
http://drupaldojo.com/lesson/jquery-resurrected
Brief class notes explaining pastebin working code:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/2843

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar


On 5/22/07, Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 21 May 2007, at 16:49, David Metzler wrote:
> > For the JQuery stuff,  I'd actually recommend looking at the Pro
> > Drupal Development book. There is an excellent introduction to
> > JQuery there.  Along with a sample module.
>
> Actually, it's the one chapter I'm not super-excited about.  If you
> know no jQuery at all, the chapter will be helpful.  But if you know
> a little bit about jQuery, the jQuery chapter doesn't learn you much.
> Most of the code in the jQuery chapter is PHP/Drupal code, and not
> Javascript/jQuery code.  So the chapter is good at educating you how
> to bind Drupal and jQuery, but doesn't get you far with jQuery
> itself.  Many of the most basic jQuery stuff is missing (i.e. it's
> extremely brief about selectors) and much of the chapter repeats what
> was already discussed in earlier chapters (i.e. how to build a module).
>
> So, if there is going to be a Drupal 6 version of the book
> (*please*), I'd suggest that the jQuery chapter gets another 10 pages
> with more jQuery tips and tricks.
>
> That said, the book rocks! :)
>
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
>
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