Entries Tagged as jQuery

Using Metro - Decorators and Validation

In the first part of Using Metro, I reviewed the Service and Gateway portion of the Metro security package. In this post, I'll describe the core Metro Decorator and Validator as well as the jQuery plugin I use for client side validation.

Blending Blueprint CSS and jQuery for Layout and Behaviour

I've always written my own CSS from scratch. Over time, I've learned the ins and outs of browser incompatibilities, but at a cost (a fraction of my sanity). For a new project I'm playing with, I decided to try out Blueprint CSS and jQuery. Blueprint took a bit of time to embrace, but when it clicked, I was able to get productive and start visualizing my layout in the language of Blueprint. Problem was, where I previously used very descriptive identifiers to provide a more semantic organization of my layout div elements, I was suddenly chaining multiple classes to achieve the same layout.