About the Authors

Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.

In the open-source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal’s menu system and developer API reference.

Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

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I would like to thank Jenny, who thinks this is wonderful even if it bores her to tears. I’d also like to thank Karl for sharing my love for linguistics, producing a book that hopefully is grammatically immaculate enough to cover up any technical sins.

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on web standards—semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.

Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.

Karl’s other obsessions include photography, karate, English grammar, and fatherhood. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia.

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I wish to thank my wife, Sara, for her steadfast love and support during my far-flung adventures into esoteric nonsense. Thanks also to my two delightful children, Benjamin and Lucia. Jonathan Chaffer has my deepest respect and gratitude for his willingness to write this book with me and to explain the really difficult aspects of programming in a gentle manner when I just don’t get it. Finally, I wish to thank John Resig for his brilliant JavaScript library and his ongoing encouragement for the book, as well as Rey Bango, Brandon Aaron, Klaus Hartl, Jörn Zaefferer, Dave Methvin, Mike Alsup, Yehuda Katz, Stefan Petre, Paul Bakaus, Michael Geary, Glen Lipka and the many others who have provided help and inspiration along the way.

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Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

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