Ever get annoyed when you encounter a text input field with a default value and are forced to clear the default text before you enter your own value?
Here's a small piece of code that I use to help solve the common UI annoyance.
July 23, 2011
July 23, 2011
A couple of days ago I wrote a lengthy tutorial about creating scrolling tables with fixed headers. I thought I could take the exercise a step further by creating a jQuery plugin to keep the code contained in one location and allow users to call the "chromatable()" method on any table, or many tables on the same page.
July 23, 2011
There is a very well written guide for jQuery coders that addresses best practice topics for performance. Some key items that I pulled directly from the guide that can be easily integrated into most front end designer's programming habits are:
July 25, 2010
It's really incredible what jQuery has done for improving Web design over the past few years. As an interactive developer I have tried and tested countless jQuery plugins in my projects, (I've created a few of my own too!).
January 21, 2010
Ever wonder if there was a better way to load external scripts and improve your website's loading performance? Once again, jQuery to the rescue!
With the jQuery.getScript() method, you can load external scripts exactly when you need them. (The old approach is just load everything you might need all at once either at the top of the page within the , or at the bottom after all of the DOM elements load.)
July 23, 2009
Wow! Chromaloop got another really cool mention on the popular design blog called The Web Design Ledger.