Jquery magic
04-08-09

It has only been recently that I have discovered the joy (and frustrations) of using jquery to animate the page and fetch ajax requests.

I am not sure why it tool so long to notice all the possibilities that jquery offered, although keeping up with a regular stream of work makes it diffucult to explore something new. I had also waited for the "right moment" when browsers were capable of rendering all the javascript extras without problem. Like breaking bad news to a partner there is never a good time.

So, the moment was right and I soon discovered that jquery made the complexities of page manipulation easy and wrapped ajax up in a digestable bundle. 

I shall write more on a few of the problems I had that were tricky to track down on the web. Ajax can be a delicate tool to debug and some time was spent adding plugins to firefox to find out what on earth was being passed silently from the web page up to the server.

More to follow...