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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
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jQuery HOTSHOT

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

jQuery is used by millions of people to write JavaScript more easily and more quickly. It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery's official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book. Some of the projects that we'll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map. Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge


In this project we're simply providing links back to a full-screen video player for each video on the YouTube site. So when the visitor clicks on a video thumbnail or title, they'll be sent off to YouTube to actually watch the video.

While there's nothing inherently wrong in doing this, a much cooler thing to do would be to open up a lightbox containing a video player embedded in an <iframe>. This would let the visitor view the video without ever leaving your site. The response from YouTube for the videos contains a link that can be used as the src attribute of an <iframe>, so why not see if you can hook this up yourself?

You'll notice that if you scroll to the bottom of the page, but then carry on scrolling down immediately, the same set of videos are requested multiple times. As an alternative task, see if you can prevent this from happening by only requesting more data if there is not currently a request in progress.

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