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Another quick one. Reading around it seems to be an issue. You make an AJAX call within a function and you want the call to be synchronous so that you can use the data from the call in the function scope.
AJAX calls are obviously asynchronous. jQuery has a ‘async: false’ option in AJAX calls but [...]

jQuery wildcard selectors – update

Posted by: Stephen Gray on: 24 April, 2009

Hello all,
On my first post on this blog I posted a small snippet to use a small regex pattern in jQuery selectors.
You can find the post here: http://colourgray.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/jquery-wildcard-selectors/
I was reading through some comments and posts on some incoming links and it seems it wasn’t working for anyone anymore. I just tested it myself and unfortunately [...]

SproutCore: a proper javascript framework

Posted by: Stephen Gray on: 17 September, 2008

I wrote a while ago about creating a client side MVC system in javascript.
Yesterday at one of the talks SproutCore was mentioned. I had a look today and it looks very promising. It’s a full framework designed to create full ‘thick client’ javascript applications. The core of it was written in Ruby and I haven’t [...]

jQuery create a client-side MVC

Posted by: Stephen Gray on: 28 August, 2008

jquery, mvc, framework

jQuery wildcard selectors

Posted by: Stephen Gray on: 5 August, 2008

UPDATE: The below method no longer works! Go here to see a tested, working method: http://ropox.net/archives/1081
This is the first tutorial on my blog. We’re going to start with something simple and it’s only useful if you use jQuery.
When I started using jQuery I found it hard to find information on using wildcards when selecting DOM [...]