JQuery Archives - Jonathan Jeter

by Estelle Weyl at HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX (Deck)

It may feel like the HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript specifications are moving along at a snails pace, but browser capabilities are moving quickly, and it is difficult to keep up with all the new feature support. In this session we’ll cover some brand spanking new and older but unknown features that make debugging, designing and developing more fun.

1. $(‘selector’) without jQuery

Supported since IE8
You can access DOM elements with standard css selectors

2. Everything is Editable

Everything can be updated
Can even paste!
Updates the DOM
Turn anything into a form element
Supported since IE5

3. Can store lots of data

LocalStorage
SessionStorage
WebSQL (deprecated but available in webkit)
IndexedDB (new standard, but not supported in any browser)

Cookie Limitations

Read the rest of 10 Things You Didn’t Know a Browser Could Do

Sunday, March 11, 2012 – South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas
by Fritz Onion – Editor in Chief of Pluralsight

A Quick History of Client-Side Templating

Demo Link

JavaScript Micro-templating

In July 2008, Jon Resig posted a little, JavaScript micro-templating function.

jQuery Templates

In 2010, Boris Moore worked on a fork of John Resig‘s protoype, but in April 2011, jQuery Templates were put on hold.

Create the template inside of script tags and then inject it via the DOM wherever you want on the page.

JsRender and JsViews

by Boris Moore, carried ideas of jQuery Templates forward with the goal of separating into two components.

Read the rest of Client-Side Templating in jQuery at South by Southwest Interactive #SXSW2012

JsRender – small fast pure string-based rendering with no DOM dependency
JsViews – takes DOM content rendered by JsRender and activates it to provide equivalent DOM integration features to jQuery Templates and data linking