Web Programming: Tutorial on JavaScript
I have to give the inspirational credit for my JavaScript tutorial to Travis Isaacs who guest lectured via webcam one day. He introduced me to Adobe Spry. "The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users." (Adobe Spry Homepage).
The navigation bar above is one example of Spry in action. The design is surprisingly similar to my CSS Nav Tutorial, but it really takes on that "richer experience" once the JavaScript is added. I also organized my Journals page using one of its widgets. The real power of Spry is in it's ability to work with data such as XML. Unfortunately, I didn't have any real data from T284 to create an intricate XML data scheme, but I did write up something simple for my Questions of the Week page. All of the links and questions are dynamically created with about 10 lines of code!
I didn't use any written tutorial, rather I just read the documentation provided and worked from their sample code. I am very excited about implementing this tutorial in future projects!
