2718.us blog » web 2.0 http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 js, jQuery, and AJAX http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/06/js-jquery-and-ajax/ http://2718.us/blog/2008/04/06/js-jquery-and-ajax/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:07:29 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=4 Through the tail end of last week and into this weekend, I’ve been learning some (more) javascript, learning to use the jQuery library/framework, and learning to make AJAX work.  I’ve discovered just how much of a royal pain it is to trap keyboard events in a way that works across platforms (mac-pc, mostly, is what I care about), though I did get pretty much all of the keyboard stuff I wanted working (arrow keys, ctrl+arrow keys, enter key).  I also learned how to make the page communicate back to a PHP backend via AJAX in a sensible way (buffering data to be sent back so as to prevent thrashing the server).

This is all in stark contrast to my previous experience with script.aculo.us, wherein I was able to make some really nifty shiny stuff work really well without having to learn too much, but it was still all traditional client-server and nothing properly AJAX and all the workings of the javascript were so specific to script.aculo.us that I didn’t really learn any js.  jQuery seems much more straight-forward, even though it also seems to provide only a much lower level of functionality, though I did start to fiddle with animations with jQuery.

Hopefully, some jQuery and AJAX will find their way into some of my production stuff in the next few weeks.

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