Jon Hartmann - jQuery

Getting Started with Cufon

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:02:00 -0500

I've been curious for a while about techniques for font replacement on the web. We've probably all heard about the idea of embedding fonts, but looking around at the standards right now, it doesn't sound like any one browser has things right, so I decided to explore a third-party option. Read more to learn about the basics of Cufon, an easy to use font "embedding" system. [More]

Using Event Bubbling to Your Advantage

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:00 -0500

Its happened to everyone working with Javascript: you build your test app that handles clicks on elements to do really neat things and everything's going great. You move it live, and as the data starts coming in your app gets slower and slower until finally the system starts to become unusable. Whats the problem? In testing you had maybe five or ten clickables, but your app has been growing, and you've now got 20, 60, 120 or more, and the time it takes to bind all of your click events is skyrocketing. What if you could just use a single handler for all of them? [More]

Preventing Multiple Submissions with Prototype and jQuery

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:56:00 -0500

If there is one problem that plagues me across applications, its users that are too antsy to wait for the page to come back after hitting submit on a form. Even worse, some people just instinctually double and triple click. How do you keep these pesky users from duplicating records or charging themselves three times for that item in your e-shop? Click "more" to see how I do it in Prototype and jQuery. [More]