jQuery Reference Widget
By Ryan Dunphey on May 20, 2007
When Wolfgang Bartelme and the Prototype crew first launched their OSX widget, we jQuery folk tried not to covet. Try as we might though (truth be told) we wanted one too!
Fast forward a few weeks later: I'm on a plane heading to our headquarters in Menlo Park. Eclipse (and a bunch of other technologies) are serving me our app via localhost--nice! ...that is, until I needed to reference those pesky $.ajax parameters!
With that in mind, and the remainder of the flight, I threw together a jQuery reference widget. It's been of value to us front-end developers at Medallia, and now we're returning some love to the jQuery community with this public release.
The widget provides simple, searchable, offline access to the API. More, we've provided the ability to search older APIs, as well as a few quick-links to online resources.
Per Resig's suggestion (and thanks John for all your help), we're releasing this with an MIT license and have made it available under version control.
We hope you find it of value!
Download the widget, v1.0 (View screenshots)
I've updated the widget to the latest documentation 1.1.3.1.
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Comments
well done！thank u！
You know it!! Anyone care to put together a screencast showing how to drag the widget out of the dashboard to show it permanently on your desktop?
Check out the Devmode widget (http://homepage.mac.com/neticen/devmode.html) to permanently keep any widget on the desktop.
can we have a Windows version or an online one?
For future reference, the command is
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
... then just press F12 while dragging the widget.
(where "f12" is whatever you use to show/hide the dashboard)
@Oleg, and all Windows jQuery users,
jQueryHelp is a tiny no-install Windows application allows immediate online searching of the jQuery API:
http://www.sean-o.com/jquery/jqueryhelp/
@Ryan, the widget looks fantastic -- looking forward to trying it on my Powerbook this weekend.
What I really like about the widget is that it's so easy to group with other reference widgets such as css and xhtml. All in the same place! And it's just so pretty to look at! Wish the jquery team looked to you for some redesign of their website :p
Hello. Very interesting website. Keep up the outstanding work and thank you.
Good luck.
Thanks a lot for this timesaving widget! :)
I now have a reason to use dashboard again. Thank you for your time in developing this.
good job! thx alot!
Hum, great!
Thank you for this widget, good job.
You can add it to the Apple dashboard repository ( http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/ )
Thank for this widget.
How can I build the jquery-docs-json.js file to upgrade to jQuery 1.2 ?
This widget is really helpful but it is missing the newest jquery version, when is the next release?
I'm not too familiar with dashboard programming, but is there a way you could distribute the source so we could just add the newest documentation? Or can I do that already? Thanks so much for the rad widget though--it's been insanely helpful.
-Mike
Hi Mike,
Glad it's been helpful.
I've long ago discontinued supporting it, making mention on my blog:
http://octoberblue.com/jquery-dashboard-widget/
It really needs to be rewritten from scratch. I made an effort to do so recently but found out that the jquery team no longer exports their docs in json, only xml.
...it would just take me too much time.
As for the source, you can simply right click and open the package. Alternatively you can find it under version control via the jquery trunk:
http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/source/browse/trunk/tools/dashboard-widget/jQuery.wdgt/
Hope that's helpful!
Ryan
Very cool! Thank you very much!