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jQuery Masonry

This is documentation for Masonry, a JavaScript library that arranges elements into an optimal grid layout where items of varying sizes fit together efficiently, like a brick wall. The library can be installed via download, CDN, or package managers, and initialized through jQuery, vanilla JavaScript, or directly in HTML using data attributes. Configuration involves defining a container element with child items sized by CSS, then specifying options like item selectors and column widths to control how Masonry arranges them.

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Ben Alman » jQuery doTimeout: Like setTimeout, but better

doTimeout is a jQuery plugin that simplifies managing delayed code execution, polling loops, and debouncing by maintaining an internal cache of timeout IDs so developers don't have to track them manually. It offers a cleaner API than native setTimeout while remaining fully jQuery chainable, allowing for easy cancellation, forced execution, and complex behaviors like polling until a condition is met or debouncing repeated events. The plugin is tested across major browsers and provides practical examples for common use cases like window resize handlers and typeahead search inputs.

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Build a Twitter app with jQuery Mobile | Blog | Web Designer

**Autodesk's own AI film has a continuity error nobody could prompt away** Autodesk created a film using AI to demonstrate its capabilities, but the final product contains a continuity error that AI prompting alone couldn't fix, according to VP of M&E Strategy Maurice Patel. Patel uses this example to argue that AI will never fully replace human animators, as the technology still requires human oversight and creative problem-solving to catch and resolve such issues.

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jQuery Grid Plugin

Guriddo jqGrid JavaScript version 5.9.0 introduces critical security and performance improvements by removing all eval-based code execution to enable Content Security Policy compliance, completely rewriting the virtual scroll module to support variable row heights, and rewriting state management to eliminate unsafe function parsing while maintaining backward compatibility. The release also includes numerous bug fixes and accessibility enhancements across frozen columns, pivot grids, tree grids, and form editing, plus the addition of ARIA labels and improved screen reader support throughout the interface.

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jStat : a JavaScript statistical library

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jQuery Menus with Stunning Animations - Noupe Design Blog

This article curates a collection of jQuery tutorials for creating visually appealing navigation menus with various animation effects—including scrollable thumbnails, drop-down menus, overlay effects, and bounce animations. It argues that attractive, animated menus are essential for user retention since visitors judge a site's quality within seconds and will leave if navigation is unappealing. The piece serves as a resource guide linking to multiple jQuery menu implementations rather than providing original instruction.

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jQuery Mobile: What Can It Do for You?

This 2011-era tutorial walks through jQuery Mobile 1.0 alpha, showing how markup-driven pages, Ajax page loading, transitions, touch-friendly forms, list views, theming, and tap/swipe events let a developer build mobile-style web interfaces with little or no hand-written JavaScript. It is worth keeping as a practical, code-heavy primer on the framework's early feature set, and as a snapshot of an alpha release whose dialogs and event support were still rough, which the reader's later comments about broken events and changepage problems confirm.

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jQuery: » New Official jQuery Plugins Provide Templating, Data Linking and Globalization

Microsoft has donated three new plugins to jQuery that have been officially accepted as part of the project: jQuery Templates (for client-side templating, later integrated into jQuery Core), jQuery Data Link (for data synchronization), and jQuery Globalization (supporting over 350 cultures and locales). The announcement marks the result of seven months of collaborative development between Microsoft and the jQuery team to ensure the plugins meet jQuery's code standards and community needs, with full documentation and source code made available on GitHub.

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