David’s Web Development Blog

I first ran into this error when I started using jQuery.  It turns out it’s a somewhat common (beginner’s) mistake of trying to run a script without first waiting for jQuery to finish loading, which results in a race condition.  The easiest fix for this is to make sure jQuery has its own separate script [...]

jQuery 1.3 was released today, on the third anniversary of jQuery.  The speed comparisons in the release notes should be enough to convince anyone to upgrade.  It shows even a marked increase in speed against jQuery 1.2.6.  There’s no comparisons against YUI however, but I’m sure all the improvements of the impending release of YUI [...]

If you’ve done any sort of work with rounded corners on webpages, you know that they can be tricky to pull off.  In any case, it’s a lot harder than it really should be.  Working with rounded corners is almost like adding graphical borders around elements as if the CSS border property didn’t exist.  It’s [...]

I’m starting to dabble in some JQuery just for fun.  After learning a lot about YUI over my summer internship at Yahoo, I wanted to see how other Javascript frameworks accomplish similar tasks. So far I like the selectors in JQuery.  Their similarity to CSS selectors makes a lot of sense.  It makes sense to retain [...]