We released our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services to Codeplex today. You can find it at http://spservices.codeplex.com; the current release is 0.2.3. We’ll keep the existing demo page up and running on the Sympraxis Consulting demo site and try to keep it current with each new release. The demo page basically mirrors our test…
I’m not sure that I’m enamored with this as a solution, but I thought that I’d post this function to see what folks think and whether there are any better ideas out there. (I’ve looked, and I certainly can’t find any!) I’m building this function to sit in our SharePoint jQuery library, so I can’t…
After the back and forth with Mike Oryszak about the last demo I built, my partner Pete and I decided that it would be really useful (and a fun exercise) to start building out a jQuery Library for the SharePoint Web Services. While many, many people have blogged about their point solutions for this (not…
Last week, I spotted a really nice blog post from Mike Oryszak which showed how to update an item without a form by using jQuery to post changes using the SharePoint Lists Web Service. It got me thinking about a lot of things that you might do to make SharePoint feel more “Web 2.0”. By…
Over the last few days, I’ve been doing some more work with jQuery. It’s really a very cool abstraction on JavaScript, but it does take some getting used to. My latest challenge is to understand .animate. It’s pretty straightforward, but cross-browser issues can make it tricky. I’m having “special” trouble with opacity in Internet Explorer. …
I’ve been watching so many folks out there doing cool things with jQuery, and it’s time to bite the bullet and get up to speed. I wanted to take a look at something I’d recently posted about and see how I could do it with jQuery rather than pure JavaScript to see what the differences…