jQuery Jamboree

Oh to be young again...

Hold on, I am young - young, healthy, well, mostly healthy, and ready to take on the world!  So, what better way to take on the computer world than take on the king of the computer mountaintop, Bill Gates, wait, no Google, hmm, um ... Liferay? jQuery!  jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML, allowing you to easily include many components that enrich and benefit the developer's coding experience.  It's killer cool and we use it pretty exclusively in the Liferay product.  That's why I'm proud to announce the contribution of 2, two, dos jQuery plugins to the jQuery.com Plugin repository!  So, without further adieu, meet:

jQuery Sifr Plugin

Straight from the exciting adventures of coding challenges with Brian Cheung, this jQuery Sifr Plugin lets you dynamically replace text in a page with CSS-styled Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) text using native jQuery functionality, along with the jQuery Flash plugin. Whoa, that sounds like a lot, but it's pretty awesome and easy to use once you see it here.

jQuery Browser Plugin

And in this corner, reigning from the inspiring wisdom of our own Nate Cavanaugh, this jQuery Browser Plugin lets you extend browser detection capabilities and implements CSS browser selectors in jQuery.  Most importantly, this means you can oh-so-easily customize or unify the look and feel of your website for individuals browsers.  It's pretty groovy stuff, and you see it and learn more about it here.

So there you have it.  Please feel free to comment or email me all of your bugs, complaints, and top reasons why you feel these plugins are completely inferior or unnecessary.

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Thanks Jonathan. But since the jquery $ variable is not supported in Liferay how can I use your sifr plugin in Liferay?
Oh, I found it out already. Just replace $ with jQuery. My font path is /flash/sifr. Now it works.

Thanks again.