What is jQuery jQuery is not a language but it is a well written JavaScript code. It is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. Licensing: It is free, open source software Dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License. Microsoft has integrated jQuery officially into its IDE Visual Studio 2010 and jQuery intellisense is available in Visual Studio 2010 now. Why jQuery jQuery is very compact and well written JavaScript code that increases the productivity of the developer by enabling them to achieve critical UI functionality by writing very less amount of code. It helps to: • Improve the performance of the application • Develop most browser compatible web page • Implement UI related critical functionality without writing hundreds of lines of codes • Fast • Extensible – jQuery can be extended to implement customized behavior Other advantages of jQuery are: • No need to learn fresh new syntaxes to use jQuery, knowing simple JavaScript syntax is enough • Simple and Cleaner code, no need to write several lines of codes to achieve complex functionality. Where to download jQuery from jQuery javascript … Continue reading →

Yesterday I was wondering how few sites I visited last week had implement speech to text and is gone today while I was using Firefox. Now I must admit, I had no idea that Google Chrome 11 has a wonderful speech analysis enabled by default with a few extra attributes added to a standard input box you can enable speech input. It really is that simple! You can add speech input to any input element by simply using the x-webkit-speech attribute; and as far as I’m aware only in very recent versions of Google Chrome. The Speech API seems new and is still a draft, so it will be a while before it’s fully adopted by other browser vendors. The results will depend on your accent and what you’re saying. In general, though, regularly-used English words and numbers are parsed surprisingly well given that the system isn’t trained to recognize your particular dulcet tones. Simple HTML code required for speech input: The x-webkit-speech attribute can be used on any HTML5 input element with a type of text, number, tel, or search. Unfortunately, it’s not permitted on textarea fields. I suspect that’s to stop people using it for long dictations which … Continue reading →