Well, it looks like I get five free copies of jsmag for the article I wrote. I'll send an email with a one time use coupon code to the first five people to comment below with an answer to "I love jQuery because . . ." :-)

And if you're not one of the first five, it's only $5 to get your own copy. If you do any javascript development you should at least check out an issue . . .

It's been a while since I've revisited javascript paging controls. Ideally I'm looking for a single, simple, easily skinnable table control (I don't need an editable data grid, although that might be cool as a separate thing). It need to support ordering by fields (ideally supporting int and date datatypes as well as string to order numbers and dates correctly, but I'll take what I can get). It should be capable of downloading a full data set and paging/ordering locally, but should also have an option to use ajax requests for the paging/ordering for larger data sets. I generally use jQuery stuff wherever I can.

What is everyone using? What are the strengths/weaknesses/recommendations?

Any input appreciated!

Paul Marcotte just put together a proof of concept for using jQuery to beautiful the kind of css required to make Blueprint work . . .

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I'm really starting to like the idea of three stage validation, validating on blur where possible, on submit where supported and then of course on the server as a backstop for users without Javascript and/or with malicious intent. There is a framework designed to make it easy to create on-blur validations and while it isn't exactly how I want to work, I think it's close enough that my first jQuery plug-in may well be based on this concept, although with support for a validation to be described once and then run both on blur and on submit.

Thoughts?

One of the biggest issues with developing sites is finding the most efficient ways of quickly prototyping sites. I just saw a posting about a new framework designed to quickly prototype AJAXy effects. The framework really doesn't quite fit what I'm trying to do, but it's an interesting approach.

jQuery is a great Javascript framework that we are integrating into our application generator. As such, we are proud to be the first sponsor of jQueryCamp07.

If you can get to Boston this October (I'll be out of the country :-<) you should really check out jQueryCamp07. It's an amazing framework and a great chance to meet the team behind it.

I'd been planning to play with jQuery for a while now, but earlier this week, I finally had a morning free to implement a data grid with paging and ordering of a local data set for one of my clients, so I decided to see what it could do . . .

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I have a project with a couple of thousand products and what I really need is support for some kind of product selector where you can search or filter for the products you want to associate to something.

For example, when managing cross sells, I envision a text area where you can optionally enter product IDs or SKUs, but a link next to it titled "product selector". Clicking on the link would pop open a window with some kind of filter search and paginated product list. You'd check a check box next to the products you wanted and then hit the "add selected" button at the bottom of the page that would add the selected IDs or SKUs to the value of the text area. I don't love the idea of a text area although it has the benefits of allowing for manual entry and being simple - maybe another approach would be a multiple select with values being added based on either entries into a text box or on those selected using the pop-up.

I guess what I'm wondering is if anyone has seen a good example of a fairly slick such system that could be generalized and generated for the generic case where you need to use a pop up to select n-elements of an object and return titles and values to some kind of underlying page with a select box. I'm a complete JS n00b, so I'm really trying to find to find a slick sample that I could dissect, generalize and use as a custom data type to solve this class of display problems. The stuff I really don't get is how to handle things like passing the values from one window to another and I'm not absolutely sure about the visual interface either. Anyone seen a slick solution to this class of problem?