jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques Beginners Guide (Packt-2011-Ed1).pdf

jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques

Beginner's Guide

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First published: March 2011

Producion Reference: 1140311

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

ISBN 978-1-849513-30-2

www.packtpub.com

Cover Image by Filippo ( Filosarti@tiscali.it )

Foreword

Since the irst jQuery homepage in 2006, an interacive example introduced visitors to jQuery

with a single line of code, and a buton to run that code. When clicked, it added a class to a

hidden paragraph, and animated that paragraph to become visible.

Today, in late 2010, the API documentaion has 15 methods listed in the Efects category.

These provide built-in animaions for fading and sliding, as well as various ways to create

custom animaions. When combined with color and class animaions and custom easings

that jQuery UI provides, there are even more ways to create animaions.

A good rule of thumb for using animaions is to use slides when showing elements within

the pagelow, and fades for overlays, like a toolip. But that's just a rule of thumb, and with

all the tools available there's a lot more opportunity to improve interacions, as well as

messing them up.

With that in mind, a full book on animaions starts to make a lot of sense. It makes even

more sense when also taking into account upcoming technologies which aren't bound to

jQuery directly, like CSS3 animaions or animated canvas drawings.

As a tech reviewer I've worked with Dan on his jQuery UI 1.6 and jQuery UI 1.7 books. At the

ime the jQuery UI team was sill iguring out the scope and exact direcion of the project,

including several direcion changes at the ime when Dan was wriing the irst book. Despite

these challenges Dan did a great job providing documentaion and extensive examples on

how to use and combine the widgets and interacions jQuery UI provides.

With this book Dan brings his experience in wriing on jQuery topics to teach you when

and how to use animaions to create beter user experiences. I hope it serves you well.

Jörn Zaeferer

jQuery UI development lead, plugin author, and QUnit maintainer

About the Author

Dan Wellman is an author and web developer based on the South coast of the UK. By day

he works alongside some of the most talented people he has had the pleasure of calling

colleagues, for a small, yet accomplished digital agency called Design Haus. By night he

writes books and tutorials on a range of frontend topics. He is hopelessly addicted to jQuery.

His life is enriched by four wonderful children, a beauiful wife, and a close circle of family

and friends. This is his ith book.

I would like to thank the hugely supporive and paient editorial team at

Packt, without whom this book would not exist. I would also like to thank

the reviewers, especially Ben Nadel and Cyril Pierron, who put aside

their own personal projects and dedicated countless hours to ensuring

the book's technical accuracy. I'd also like to say a big Hey! to some of

my closest friends, in no paricular order; Andrew Herman, Steev Bishop,

Aaron Matheson, Eamon O'Donoghue, James Zabiela, Mike Woodford, and

John Adams.

About the Reviewers

Shaiful Islam completed his graduaion in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from

IIUC (Internaional Islamic University Chitagong), and loves web development and PHP.

He is a Sotware Engineer, with three years of experience in web development and a

keen lover of web technology. He also loves CSS, JQuery, CodeIgniter, Cakephp, and Zend

Framework, which showed him the way to develop his career in web development and the

programming ield.

His moto is: Work through best approach , commitment , skill, and keep smiling .

Currently he is working for "bGlobal Sourcing LLC" as a Sotware Engineer.

I would like to thank all of my friends, colleagues, and those senior

brothers who reviewed this type of book before and from whom I got

inspiraion. Special thanks to everyone at Packt Publishing.

Ben Nadel is the chief sotware engineer at Epicenter Consuling, a Manhatan-based web

applicaion development irm specializing in innovaive custom sotware that transforms

the way its clients do business. He is also an Adobe Community Professional as well as an

Adobe Ceriied Professional in Advanced ColdFusion. In his spare ime, he blogs extensively

about all aspects of obsessively thorough web applicaion development at http://www.

bennadel.com/ .

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