Stumbled across this site recently which lists some pretty fun jQuery tutorials including some of the tricks I see a lot on some of the trendier sites out there. It’s definitely got me inspired with a couple of these techniques.
Continuing on this discussion floating around on the Web these days…jQuery (Javascript) has long been an alternative way to accomplish neat web tricks without having to resort to Flash. It’s just that for a while now, some of the more graphic related tricks have been hard to accomplish with javascript. It seems like it’s definitely catching up though…it’s easy to implement, code is free, and combined with CSS – there’s a lot of tricks you can do as evidenced by the tutorial samples. If you have a website that uses JS, you can assume it’s marginally more accessible than if you had a Flash website. That’s always a good thing to aim for even if it’s never a perfect solution.
This article on “Flash vrs Javascript (jQuery) Pros and Cons” has a pretty good summary of the comparison between the two. (via CoDrops & LogicPool)
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