jQuery: Making Web Wizards simple

[Raithlin]

For you jQuery users, here's a brilliant article on making wizards from forms.

Turn any webform into a powerful wizard with jQuery (FormToWizard plugin)

I'll be using this.

 

[murraybiscuit]

not bad degrades back to regular old form.
like yr sig. lol.

 

[Raithlin]

not bad degrades back to regular old form.

...as should anything worth its salt, especially regarding JavaScript.

 

[guest2013-1]

And it's nice and small....sure as hell would use this for my current app I'm doing,ty

 

[Necuno]

one question. what happens when a browser update say IE9 does things a little differently and it breaks some features in jquery- obviously this will break all your applications that are dependent on a non final 'application' (jqeury) that is still in alpha.

Why would you be using something which aren't either a final release and properly supported by ms it self ? i suppose this goes with if you clients are ms products only ?

-just curious

 

[Raithlin]

one question. what happens when a browser update say IE9 does things a little differently and it breaks some features in jquery- obviously this will break all your applications that are dependent on a non final 'application' (jqeury) that is still in alpha.

Why would you be using something which aren't either a final release and properly supported by ms it self ? i suppose this goes with if you clients are ms products only ?

-just curious

Well, for a start, Microsoft includes jQuery as part of its ASP.Net MVC solution, so it would be in their best interest to make sure that jQuery is updated if it's a breaking change in IE9 (which it shouldn't, based on current trends). Secondly, jQuery is stable, and most certainly not alpha (Latest production release 1.3.2). So, I guess that about covers it - or did I miss something you didn't?

 

[Necuno]

Well, for a start, Microsoft includes jQuery as part of its ASP.Net MVC solution, so it would be in their best interest to make sure that jQuery is updated if it's a breaking change in IE9 (which it shouldn't, based on current trends). Secondly, jQuery is stable, and most certainly not alpha (Latest production release 1.3.2). So, I guess that about covers it - or did I miss something you didn't?

i see so it is actually in production release then. any other reason why one wouldn't be using using jQuery apart from not knowing it exists then ?

 

[guest2013-1]

i see so it is actually in production release then. any other reason why one wouldn't be using using jQuery apart from not knowing it exists then ?

Nope, there is no other reason

And re: compatibility. Bet you R100 MS will **** it up all the time. CSS/JS you name it. They don't even stick to their OWN standards.

So I don't really care much. If the website breaks because of a new browser I'll just have to be forced to run in compatible mode, pretty easy to do but ****s you around a bit found that out the hard way the other day, ESPECIALLY with how it renders HTML

I still want to cry and slash my wrists a bit

MS makes me emo

 

[Necuno]

Nope, there is no other reason

And re: compatibility. Bet you R100 MS will **** it up all the time. CSS/JS you name it. They don't even stick to their OWN standards.

So I don't really care much. If the website breaks because of a new browser I'll just have to be forced to run in compatible mode, pretty easy to do but ****s you around a bit found that out the hard way the other day, ESPECIALLY with how it renders HTML

I still want to cry and slash my wrists a bit

MS makes me emo

cool. asking because to be able to use it i would need to have a good case (convincing the main architect/boss) as why it should be used without the possibility of issues down the line for example.

 

[guest2013-1]

Yea well, jQuery is awesome, the amount of time spent figuring out compatibility issues between FF/IE (and sticking and telling other guys in the team to stick to the "compatible way" and them not doing it) is saved.

And it's really tiny... and expandable... and and and and soooooo nice

*sex0rs jquery*

No but seriously now, the amount of code and time it saved me is amazing, especially the amount of *cross browser compatibility features* I put in. It just works.

 

[debonair]

Great stuff! will definitely find use for it

 

[Raithlin]

Yeah, I'm using it in my current project (and changing all the existing code as I go ). Works a treat, and the plugins are great time savers too. As for getting the boss to agree -I just use it. Nobody asks any questions when it just works.

 

[guest2013-1]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/academia_vs_business.png

 

[Raithlin]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/academia_vs_business.png

Quite.

 

[Gnome]

Google use jQuery even though they have their own framework, enough said IMHO.

And the compatibility list:
* Firefox 2.0+
* Internet Explorer 6+
* Safari 3+
* Opera 9+
* Chrome 1+

Any business/person who chooses to write their own JS over using jQuery are crazy, we did a pretty large server side application this year for Uni and I would definitely not have made it without jQuery!