A few weeks ago, I wrote a jQuery slideshow app for a personal project. The slideshow ended up being more useful than I originally expected and I realized that it could be re-used in a many different applications with a little more work. Several days later, A List Apart launched “10K Apart: A contest to inspire the web in under 10k.” When I first read about the contest my slideshow app came to mind so I decided to look into ways to make it work for the concept. Read more »
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About Ben Lister
- I am a Front-End Developer and UX Designer living in Chicago. I like to write about CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, Prototype, PHP, CodeIgniter, Interface design, craft beer and fancy food. more »
Starting with Safari 4, iPhone/iPad OS3, Chrome 5, and Opera 10.5 (Desktop), HTML5 Local Databases are now supported. I’ve been reading about local databases for quite some time and decided to do a write up with some basic examples on how to get started. Read more »
Designers have been using basic CSS3 techniques to enhance their designs for several years now, but cross-browser incompatibilities and lack of practical examples have slowed its progression in the mainstream design world. In this tutorial, I explore and demonstrate some of the more practical aspects of CSS3 and provide realistic examples, resources, advise and a compatibility guide.
Fancybox is a powerful, lightweight jQuery based lightbox script that offers developers an impressive variety of content display options. I’ve used this script many times in the past (including my portfolio) and have never run into any limitations in terms of functionality until a recent project required many lightboxes with varying sizes. Read more »
In early 2009, I experimented with XML based iPhone / Safari Mobile web app which used jQuery to parse and traverse multiple levels of nodes in an XML file and display the data. While that project never panned out, the core code has become quite useful in a number of professional and personal projects. This tutorial provides working examples and demonstrates the concept of parsing and traversing an XML file with jQuery using AJAX. Read more »
