John Resig released a bug fix release today for jQuery.
I definitely recommend that you upgrade to this release since it’ll only help make your development go easier (I expect that the next few point releases will be rather feature-lite).
Interface Elements for jQuery has been updated to use jQuery 1.0, some new effects in the library and a new website.
Version 1.0 of jquery just got released. Nice to have a real version so that all plugin developers can update out-of-date plugins made on older releases.
Third part of this everlasting debate. This time the winner is ….. Prototype.
Basically the guy calls Prototype ugly, states that it’s baked into Rails and wonders why more Rails developers don’t use JQuery considering it’s philosophy is more in-tune with your your average Rails developer. To top it all off, he posts some bad code comparisons between Prototype and JQuery.
Yummy, this turns out to be a real war.. 
Dan Brown writes a good and informative article about how to make a competitive analysis from an Information Architetural / Design point-of-view. A must read for those interested in business analysis and the more theoretical area of work for people working with front-end related issues. I liked it.
Every industry has its own version of the competitive analysis and its function is clear: to line up your product with other products and show where yours falls short and where yours is superior.
Another article focusing on differences between the two large javascript frameworks. Dr Nic on Ruby on Rails » Ajax on Rails – Prototype vs JQuery. This article mainly focus on the rails-perspective. Prototype and scriptaculous has become the main framework for that environment. I think jquery will be the standard framework in a future to come.
I find the prototype library a bit bloated and heavy and a nice article at the jquery blog shows the main benefits using jquery compared to the prototype library.
Blogger has gone beta with a version that supports labels. As I see it this had to happen, you must be able to categorize your posting. Wonder how long it will take before you can merge your exisiting blogs into this new user interface.
Found this really good looking plugin for jquery that tweens/animates between muliple pages/images. You can easily extend it with your own tweening functions. There is probably a lot of work still needed on this plugin, but if he makes Will Jessup manages to remove all bugs and add the functionality he mentions on the site, I believe it can be a really nice plugin for galleries and other areas of a site where you would like to step through a big set of pages/images.
Make sure you have read my in-depth article on how you should implement JavaScript Form Validation as best practice.
I belive that jquery form validation is something that should be put into the core of jQuery UI or other software package that further enhance the UI with jQuery, maybe the integration of jQuery into .NET or jQuery on Zend Framework 1.7 will enable jQuery driven form validation. A couple of weeks ago I started myself to implement an unobtrusive form validation script named jform, based on jQuery, unfortunately I have not had the time to keep up the work on the script (two kids takes time from writing code in your “spare time”). But as I feel the need for a script that works out of the box without any particular configuration, I will probably start focusing on the script whenever I happens to find an hour or two to spend on the script.
Below I will compile a list of good validation plugins running on top of jQuery.
2007-03-30
I have written a piece on JavaScript Form Validation in general today, I will add a section on jQuery form validation is specific. Go there to read more about javascript form validation.
2007-03-07
Most notable new features:
- dependency checking: The required method accepts both
jQuery-expressions and functions to compute whether a field is required
or not
- customizing error message handling: From doing it all yourself (and
still delegating to the default handler) to customizing the placement of
generated error messages
In Jörns API-browser you can get all documentation you need for the jquery form validation plugin.
2006-08-23
Original Post
A really nice jQuery form validation plugin can be found at Jörn Zaefferers Blogfuzz.bassistance.de. I have been looking for a good jquery validation plugin for of forms, maybe this plugin is fit for combining with a server side form validation plugin for smarty. Of course a business-rules integration also can be made using jquery ajax calls against an server exposed api.
Read or full length article on Form Validation with JavaScript.
Even more articles like this can be found on the section where we discuss front end architecture.