trying to be a mile wide AND a mile deep
We’ve done some simple parallax on a couple of websites recently, using jQuery but no additional JavaScript libraries. It takes some hand-tweaking – and you have to know your items in advance – but is also much lighter weight than a plugin. Here’s how.
Two variations on CSS-Tricks’ Simple Auto-Playing Slideshow (jQuery): one to load slideshow content via AJAX, and one to turn each slideshow item into a question-answer pair.
So suppose you want to fix the sidebar on a Twenty Fifteen WordPress site, because most of the time it’s going to be short enough to fit entirely on the screen. And suppose you don’t want the nice wide scrollbar Internet Explorer (even 11) will put down the edge of your sidebar whether or not scrolling is happening or even possible. Let’s talk about that.
Let’s accordion the sidebar widgets in Twenty Fifteen to make a fairly short sidebar even shorter – perhaps short enough to fit entirely within the screen and be fixed in place.
A little narrative about my production of an AJAXified implementation of Mastermind with object-oriented PHP. You can play it or get the code.
Last time we set up the PHP (slash HTML, slash CSS) to dynamically generate Media Library Assistant gallery shortcodes and an album menu. Everything works without any JavaScript. Today we’re going to add JavaScript, with jQuery, to do three things.