jQuery

I decided to share some of the best practices of Javascript which I have learned from various blogs and books over the years.

ezMark is a jQuery Plugin that allows you to stylize Radio button and Checkbox easily. Its very small (minified version is ~1.5kb) compared to other similar scripts.

This jQuery Plugin (jimdb) allows you to Grab Movie Details from an IMDB Webpage very easily. It grabs the basic details (Title, Director, Writers, Release Date, Tag line, Plot, Runtime, MPAA, Language, Aspect Ratio, Country) from the IMDB Page and Returns the data in JSON Format.

To overcome Javascript Cross-domain restriction, a server-side proxy file has been provided in PHP with the plugin.

I decided to create a carousel which will be efficient and offer graceful degradation. The only Carousel I came across which offers such feature is the one of Yahoo! Canada (Featured Area of Home Page). Turn off the JS, and you will still see the same layout, with each Items on the right now acting as a link. Upon clicking them will take you to their corresponding page.

Since I started using jQuery (~10 months ago), I have been mostly using jQuery's $.ajax function for form submission as it provides an easy way to post form values and retreive JSON format easily. But, when using Javascript, there's always the question of 'graceful degradation'.