EdinburghMenus.com has now adopted the jQuery javascript library for adding trendy new functionality and effects to the site. This is slowly going to replace other little snippets of javascript we have written for the site.

jQuery is going to enable us to add fancy new features to the site more rapidly and with more cross-browser compatability. For example, we were aware of some problems with our help pop-ups not displaying properly on version 2 of Safari on OS X. Our new jQuery based help popups should sort this problem out, as well as being a bit fancier in general.

To match our fancy new help pop-ups, we’ve replaced the generic AJAX spinner with a fancy new EdinburghMenus.com one. Our site is pretty snappy, so you will probably only ever see a flash of this when waiting for search results or popup help text. But if you are ever kept waiting for a few seconds, watching our little marker bounce happily away will hopefully make the wait more enjoyable!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 and is filed under development, technical.
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