Comments on: Creating a Network Bar with jQuery

By: haberler

haberler — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:33:41 +0000

very useful article thank you . You are jquery expert.

By: jnunemaker

jnunemaker — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:33:42 +0000

@Jon That is correct. I kind of share blawgtips with a friend so I didn’t put my other sites on it. Just railstips.

By: Jonathan Hoyt

Jonathan Hoyt — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:37:58 +0000

John, is it just me or does blawgtips only link back railstips, and not to addicted to new or ordered list?

By: Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:31:03 +0000

I understand why you used jQuery, though, I prefer using HTML to get the full power of the linkage between the networked sites. It may be more work to maintain and synchronize, but the linkage in the very top of the markup can be powerful between related blogs.

Other than that, rock on.

By: jnunemaker

jnunemaker — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:12:27 +0000

@Brendan – A server side include would only work if all sites were on same server.

By: jnunemaker

jnunemaker — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:01:44 +0000

@Brandon – What things do you miss from prototype lowpro? I’m finding that most of the things I miss I can actually do in jQuery but I just had to think through it differently.

I had overflow and I changed it. Can’t remember why. I’ll have to look into it again.

By: Brandon Keepers

Brandon Keepers — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:53:06 +0000

Nice. The code looks very clean. I’m still learning to love jQuery. There are some specific things I love about it, but there are things I miss from prototype+lowpro when I’m using it.

Also, you should be able to set @overflow:auto@ on #network_bar to get a clearing effect without having to manually set it on the next element.

By: jnunemaker

jnunemaker — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:59:33 +0000

@Nate – Ha. Yeah, I’ve grown to love it to. So succinct! Thanks for showing RailsTips to friends! Appreciated.

By: Brendan Falkowski

Brendan Falkowski — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:57:13 +0000

I have to agree with @Josh Abbott on jQuery usage here, but I love the idea of a single resource being called for each site in the network.

Wouldn’t it be easier to use a server side include from a single location like: http://assets.addictedtonew.com/snippet/network-bar.html?

By: Nate Klaiber

Nate Klaiber — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:49:35 +0000

I noticed the bar last night when showing some friends the railstips.org website. Looks nice.

Oh, and I love jQuery.

By: jnunemaker

jnunemaker — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:59:31 +0000

@Josh – Yeah, it could be done with plain html but then I would have to add that html and css to every site in the network and update every site each time I wanted to change the bar. The point of this is that I can update the bar on every site from one place. You can’t do that with plain old XHTML/CSS.

By: Josh N. Abbott

Josh N. Abbott — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:18:42 +0000

I’m a little puzzled as to why this was done using jQuery. You could have achieved this exact same thing using some good ole XHTML/CSS (which the JS is using anyway). Not to mention the fact that it would degrade much more gracefully for non-js-enabled devices.