Thanks to everyone for recommending the book, I ordered it right away. However, I get the impression from this comment in the five minute review this is not a "for Dummies" book
" Glancing at the Table of Contents - I'm happy to note there are no basic introductory 'HTML/Javascript' chapters (no fluff!) you dive right into a simple jQuery script where you manipulate some CSS." I was hoping there would be a basic intro to the things most people familiar with JavaScript take for granted. So " Initially you start at the basics - jQuery syntax, selectors, events and using effects." I would like to see several pages of different ways to activate a jQuery, as I have seen at least a dozen,. For example as dumb as this sounds it took me a while to figure out you can call anything in jQuery, using a onclick="foo()". But I have not been able to get several jQuery functions to work this way either. I am not familiar with all the events like "attaching" and "focus" and things like "chaining" are new to me. Again, I'm talking a real dummy here :) Though I am proud of what I have been able to do: http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/NEW_TAB_SEARCH.html Check the effects on the Text and Small Icon views and click the Sorting->First, Last to see it puff. The big challenge in this simulation was getting the effects to wait a fixed time before firing, so as to simulate a real trip to the server. Mitch -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rey Bango Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:28 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: jQuery for Dummies Hi Mitchell, Welcome to jQuery my man. Here's a great option for you. jQuery team member Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer have authored a book called "Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques" You can find it here: http://www.packtpub.com/jQuery/book/mid/100407j4kh3d I would highly recommend you pick it up and in addition, jump over to the following sites: learningjquery.com http://15daysofjquery.com/ They were invaluable to me during my initial road to understanding the library. I hope this helps. Rey Mitchell Waite wrote: > I'm trying to learn jQuery from the tutorials at the web site. They are very > good but assume a pretty good knowledge of javascript and calling and using > functions in ways that bewilder me. > > Is there any kind of Idiot's Guide to using jQuery? > > If not does anyone want to co-author one with me? > > Mitch Waite > http://www.mitchwaite.com > http://www.whatbird.com > > > > -- BrightLight Development, LLC. 954-775-1111 (o) 954-600-2726 (c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iambright.com
