The book contains all the information you need to successfully author your very own jQuery plugin with a particular focus on the practical aspect of design and development.
It will also cover some details of real life plugins and explain their functioning to gain a better understanding of the overall concept of plugin development and jQuery plugin architecture.
Different topics regarding plugin development are discussed,and you will learn how to develop many types of add-ons,ranging from media plugins (such as slideshows,video and audio controls, and so on) to various utilities (image pre-loading,handling cookies) and use and applications of jQuery effects and animations (sliding, fading,combined animations) to eventually demonstrate how all of these plugins can be merged and give birth to a new, more complex,and multi purpose script that comes in handy in a lot of situations.
What you will learn from this book
- Create numerous types of commonly used jQuery plugins
- Design a standard development pattern to apply to all your plugins to speed up the process
- Build plugins that enhance viewer's multimedia experience on your website
- Learn how to build attractive animation plugins that show effects like fading and sliding
- Discover how jQuery handles third party plugins and how some portions of code can(not) be accessed
- Implement time saving design patterns and best practices to optimize your plugins
- Learn the ins and outs of some of the most popular plugins and how they actually work to do what they do
- Learn via an in-depth practical approach,providing you with a simple, yet effective,structure to minimize efforts and obtain better results quickly