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An Introductionto the World of jQuery—StartingWith the jQueryObject Itself

INSIDE

jQuery Plugin Rundown

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Winning onPhilosophy:Why jQuery’s Approach Works

Plugin Roundup...........10

Three great plugins or developingrich applications with jQuery

Visual jQuery

Magazine

From The Editor...........3

Yehuda Katz on his web developmenthistory, his avorites, and o course, jQuery: the library and magazine.

Winning on Philosophy..4

What the jQuery Philosophy is and why it works so well.

Tutorial Series..............8

In our frst tutorial, we explore the jQuery object and what makes itspecial.

Meet DaveCardwell

The creator o jQBrowserand jQMinMax chatswith

Visual jQuery Magazine

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On Page 9

ISSUE 2SNEAK PEEK

Next month, we have an interview with

KlausHartl

, the creator o the popular Tabs plugin,and a developer on Plazes.Also, a tutorial on jQuery’s

AJAX

unctional-ity, a visual eects

plugin roundup

, anotherarticle, and

your letters

. All on October 18.

Behind The Magic..........6

The Man: An interview with

JohnResig

,

ather o jQuery

We Want Your Letters

Please submit letters to the editor toeditor@visualjquery.com. WE will printletters relating to articles in the Magazineor o general interest to the jQuerycommunity i space permits. We reservethe right to reject any letter.

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As is traditional, I’d like myrst editorial to welcome newreaders to the

Visual jQueryMagazine

.Around a year ago, ater a airlylarge amount o time doingtraditional web development,I ound mysel interested inthis newangled concept called

AJAX

. I attended a workshop bythe luminary Thomas Fuchs, thecreator o

Scriptaculous

(based on the Prototypelibrary), and while I was quite impressed by thecapabilities o both Prototype and Scriptaculous,something tugged at me.Ater using them or a bit, and becoming somewhatprocient at using Prototype to build responsive,rich

web applications

, I realized that the learningcurve was ar too steep. While I was able to do allsorts o powerul things, I ound mysel constantlyreinventing the wheel or simple tasks. While AJAXyJavascript has gotten the term “

DOM Scripting

,” Ibarely elt the infuence o the DOM in my day-to-dayPrototype development.Thankully, I came across

Ruby on Rails

shortlythereater, which does a darn good job o abstractingout the entire concept o Javascript (and while thenow-popular RJS templates were not available yet, Istill ound Rails’

Prototype helpers

to take the edgeo).A ew months later, I came across the

Interface

libraryin a post about the various cool eects (especiallynotable was the selectables plugin),and I ollowed the link home to

jQuery

.Immediately, I took to the ramework,which seemed to think the way Iwas programming: by centering on

DOM Elements

and tacking bits o unctionality on top o them, jQuerymade Javascript un again. jQuery was ar ahead o the pack,even then, with documentation, but I quickly dovein, trying to organize the jQuery

documentation

wiki, and eventually throwing up the rst iteration o

Visual jQuery

, the slick visual representation o the jQuery API. When jQuery 1.0

began to include thedocumentation built-in, I retooled Visual jQuery totake advantage o that.I suspect many o this magazine’s readers tookparallel paths to nding jQuery. Still others, initiallyhorried at the prospect o learning Java, were nodoubt pleasantly surprised at just how

easy

it is tolearn jQuery. Hopeully this magazine will appeal toboth sorts. For the seasoned jQueryist, we bring youadvanced techniques, and a

rundown of plugins

that will supercharge your next project.For the beginner, we’ll be eaturing

ground-uptutorials

on the ramework, helping you to build yourrst project with a solid grasp o what you’re doing,not just copying and pasting code snippets.With that, I leave you to

the magazine

. Good luckwith jQuery!

. . . From The Editor

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